High order moments of first hitting times for single death processes

Abstract

We present an explicit and recursive representation for high order moments of the first hitting times of single death processes. Based on that, some necessary or sufficient conditions of exponential ergodicity as well as a criterion on\mathit{\ell }-ergodicity are obtained for single death processes, respectively.

Keywords

Single death process / moment of the first hitting time / exponential ergodocity

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