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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 1980 Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 389–393 (Mi tvp1184)

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Any Markov process in a Borel space has a transition function

S. E. Kuznecov

Moscow

Abstract: The most natural way to define «Markov process» $x_t$ is to say that it is a stochastic process with the Markov property. However, in some of the most interesting applications it is possible to consider only the processes with transition function, which is a family $\{p_t^s(x,\Gamma)\}$ of conditional distributions of $x_t$ given $x_s$, satisfying Kolmogorov–Chapman equation $p_t^s p_u^t=p_u^s$, $s<t<u$. We prove that the Markov process has the transition function if its state space is universal (i. e. it is isomorphic to a universally measurable subset of a Polish space).

Received: 18.12.1979


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 1981, 25:2, 384–388

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