Cutoff for samples of Markov chains
Bernard Ycart (2010)
ESAIM: Probability and Statistics
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We study the convergence to equilibrium of samples of independent Markov chains in discrete and continuous time. They are defined as Markov chains on the fold Cartesian product of the initial state space by itself, and they converge to the direct product of copies of the initial stationary distribution. Sharp estimates for the convergence speed are given in terms of the spectrum of the initial chain. A cutoff phenomenon occurs in the sense that as tends to infinity, the total...