Why the Kemeny Time is Constant

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2015-11-03
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Cornell University Library
Abstract

We present a new fundamental intuition for why the Kemeny feature of a Markov chain is a constant. This new perspective has interesting further implications.

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Markov chains; Mixing; Kemeny constant
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In arXiv:1510.00456 [math.PR]. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00456
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