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This note is devoted to study the exponential convergence rate in the total variation for reversible Markov processes by comparing it with the spectral gap. It is proved that in a quite general setup, with a suitable restriction on the initial distributions, the rate is bounded from below by the spectral gap. Furthermore, in the compact case or for birth-death processes or half-line diffusions, the rate is shown to be equal to the spectral gap.
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Research supported in part by NSFC, Qiu Shi Sci. & Tech. Found. DPFIHE, MCSEC and Univ., of Rome I, Italy
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Mufa, C. Estimate of exponential convergence rate in total variation by spectral gap. Acta Mathematica Sinica 14, 9–16 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02563878
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02563878