Boucherie, Richard J. - In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications 45 (1993) 1, pp. 95-114
For a collection of Markov chains the aggregated process, that is a process for which the transition rates are a mixture of the transition rates of the Markov chains in the collection, is introduced. A sufficient condition is given, called cross-balance, a generalization of global balance to a...