Mao, Yong-Hua; Song, Yan-Hong - In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications 124 (2014) 4, pp. 1648-1678
General characterizations of ergodic Markov chains have been developed in considerable detail. In this paper, we study the transience for discrete-time Markov chains on general state spaces, including the geometric transience and algebraic transience. Criteria are presented through bounding the...