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Preliminaries on Transition Functions and Their Invariant Probabilities

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Invariant Probabilities of Transition Functions

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Our goal in this chapter is to introduce the transition functions and to discuss various related notions and known basic results that will be used throughout the book. Also in this chapter, we discuss several examples of transition functions which have a didactic purpose in the sense that we present these examples only to use them to illustrate the results of the book.

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Zaharopol, R. (2014). Preliminaries on Transition Functions and Their Invariant Probabilities. In: Invariant Probabilities of Transition Functions. Probability and Its Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05723-1_2

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