Alpern, Steven and Prasad, V. S. (2005) Rotational (and other) representations of stochastic matrices. CDAM research report series (CDAM-LSE-2005-13). Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Joel E. Cohen (1981) conjectured that any stochastic matrix P = fpi;jg could be represented by some circle rotation f in the following sense: For some par- tition fSig of the circle into sets consisting of nite unions of arcs, we have (*) pi;j = (f (Si) \ Sj) = (Si), where denotes arc length. In this paper we show how cycle decomposition techniques originally used (Alpern, 1983) to establish Cohen�s conjecture can be extended to give a short simple proof of the Coding Theorem, that any mixing (that is, PN > 0 for some N) stochastic matrix P can be represented (in the sense of * but with Si merely measurable) by any aperiodic measure preserving bijection (automorphism) of a Lesbesgue proba- bility space. Representations by pointwise and setwise periodic automorphisms are also established. While this paper is largely expository, all the proofs, and some of the results, are new.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cdam.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 the authors |
| Divisions: | Mathematics Management |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2008 10:17 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13931 |
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