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A regeneration structure is established for chains with infinite memory. The memory is required to decay only along a single recurrent path. When there are many recurrent paths (e.g. under conservativity) the construction yields a decomposition into regenerative recurrent classes.
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Research supported by NSF Grant DMS 89-01464