Existence of a unique quasi-stationary distribution in stochastic reaction networks

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In the setting of stochastic dynamical systems that eventually go extinct, the quasistationary distributions are useful to understand the long-term behavior of a system before evanescence. For a broad class of applicable continuous-time Markov processes on countably infinite state spaces, known as reaction networks, we introduce the inferred notion of absorbing and endorsed sets, and obtain sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a quasi-stationary distribution within each such endorsed set. In particular, we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of a globally attracting quasi-stationary distribution in the space of probability measures on the set of endorsed states. Furthermore, under these conditions, the convergence from any initial distribution to the quasi-stationary distribution is exponential in the total variation norm.

Original languageEnglish
Article number45
JournalElectronic Journal of Probability
Volume25
Number of pages30
ISSN1083-6489
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020

    Research areas

  • Continuous time Markov process, Quasi-stationary distribution, Reaction network

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