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The present work was done while the author was holding a stipend of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation of W. Germany. A preliminary report was published in [32].
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Papangelou, F. Strong ratio limits, R-recurrence and mixing properties of discrete parameter Markov processes. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 8, 259–297 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00531592
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