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Good morning to everyone. I have a problem on proving a fact about an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain.
Specifically,suppose we have an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain. We know that it is positively recurrent, i.e. for every state i $ E_i[T_i] $ is finite,where $T_i$ is defined as the $ min { n>0 : X_n= i } $. I need to prove that this random variable has also finite variance ( and in fact finite moments of every order.
Has anybody any ideas about that??
Thank you a lot.










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    Good morning to everyone. I have a problem on proving a fact about an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain.
    Specifically,suppose we have an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain. We know that it is positively recurrent, i.e. for every state i $ E_i[T_i] $ is finite,where $T_i$ is defined as the $ min { n>0 : X_n= i } $. I need to prove that this random variable has also finite variance ( and in fact finite moments of every order.
    Has anybody any ideas about that??
    Thank you a lot.










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      Good morning to everyone. I have a problem on proving a fact about an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain.
      Specifically,suppose we have an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain. We know that it is positively recurrent, i.e. for every state i $ E_i[T_i] $ is finite,where $T_i$ is defined as the $ min { n>0 : X_n= i } $. I need to prove that this random variable has also finite variance ( and in fact finite moments of every order.
      Has anybody any ideas about that??
      Thank you a lot.










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      Good morning to everyone. I have a problem on proving a fact about an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain.
      Specifically,suppose we have an irreducible,finite state space Markov chain. We know that it is positively recurrent, i.e. for every state i $ E_i[T_i] $ is finite,where $T_i$ is defined as the $ min { n>0 : X_n= i } $. I need to prove that this random variable has also finite variance ( and in fact finite moments of every order.
      Has anybody any ideas about that??
      Thank you a lot.







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