TY - JOUR T1 - Blockwise Perturbation Theory for 2x2 Block Markov Chains AU - Xue , Jun-Gong AU - Gao , Wei-Guo JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 3 SP - 305 EP - 312 PY - 2000 DA - 2000/06 SN - 18 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/9044.html KW - Blockwise perturbation, Markov chains, stationary distribution, error bound. AB -

Let P be a transition matrix of a Markov chain and be of the form $$P=\Bigg( \begin{matrix} P_{11} &P_{12} \\ P_{21} &P_{22}  \end{matrix} \Bigg).$$ The stationary distribution $π^T$ is partitioned conformally in the form $(π^T_1, π^T_2)$. This paper establish the relative error bound in $π^T_i (i=1,2)$ when each block $P_{ij}$ get a small relative perturbation.