The stability of conditional Markov processes and Markov chains in random environments
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- 1 September 2009
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Mathematical Statistics in The Annals of Probability
- Vol. 37 (5)
- https://doi.org/10.1214/08-aop448
Abstract
We consider a discrete time hidden Markov model where the signal is a stationary Markov chain. When conditioned on the observations, the signal is a Markov chain in a random environment under the conditional measure. It is shown that this conditional signal is weakly ergodic when the signal is ergodic and the observations are nondegenerate. This permits a delicate exchange of the intersection and supremum of $\sigma$-fields, which is key for the stability of the nonlinear filter and partially resolves a long-standing gap in the proof of a result of Kunita [J. Multivariate Anal. 1 (1971) 365--393]. A similar result is obtained also in the continuous time setting. The proofs are based on an ergodic theorem for Markov chains in random environments in a general state space.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP448 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.orgKeywords
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