TY - GEN A1 - Dai Pra, Paolo A1 - Louis, Pierre-Yves A1 - Minelli, Ida T1 - Monotonicity and complete monotonicity for continuous-time Markov chains N2 - We analyze the notions of monotonicity and complete monotonicity for Markov Chains in continuous-time, taking values in a finite partially ordered set. Similarly to what happens in discrete-time, the two notions are not equivalent. However, we show that there are partially ordered sets for which monotonicity and complete monotonicity coincide in continuous time but not in discrete-time. N2 - Nous étudions les notions de monotonie et de monotonie complète pour les processus de Markov (ou chaînes de Markov à temps continu) prenant leurs valeurs dans un espace partiellement ordonné. Ces deux notions ne sont pas équivalentes, comme c'est le cas lorsque le temps est discret. Cependant, nous établissons que pour certains ensembles partiellement ordonnés, l'équivalence a lieu en temps continu bien que n'étant pas vraie en temps discret. KW - Stochastik KW - continuous time Markov Chains KW - poset KW - monotonicity KW - coupling Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-7665 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Louis, Pierre-Yves T1 - Ergodicity of PCA BT - equivalence between spatial and temporal mixing conditions N2 - For a general attractive Probabilistic Cellular Automata on S-Zd, we prove that the (time-) convergence towards equilibrium of this Markovian parallel dynamics, exponentially fast in the uniform norm, is equivalent to a condition (A). This condition means the exponential decay of the influence from the boundary for the invariant measures of the system restricted to finite boxes. For a class of reversible PCA dynamics on {1,+1}(Zd), wit a naturally associated Gibbsian potential rho, we prove that a (spatial-) weak mixing condition (WM) for rho implies the validity of the assumption (A); thus exponential (time-) ergodicity of these dynamics towards the unique Gibbs measure associated to rho hods. On some particular examples we state that exponential ergodicity holds as soon as there is no phase transition. KW - Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie KW - Wechselwirkende Teilchensysteme KW - Stochastische Zellulare Automaten KW - Interacting particle systems KW - Probabilistic Cellular Automata KW - ERgodicity of Markov Chains KW - Gibbs measures Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6589 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Louis, Pierre-Yves T1 - Increasing coupling for probabilistic cellular automata N2 - We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an increasing coupling of N (N >= 2) synchronous dynamics on S-Zd (PCA). Increasing means the coupling preserves stochastic ordering. We first present our main construction theorem in the case where S is totally ordered; applications to attractive PCAs are given. When S is only partially ordered, we show on two examples that a coupling of more than two synchronous dynamics may not exist. We also prove an extension of our main result for a particular class of partially ordered spaces. KW - Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie KW - stochastische Anordnung KW - stochastische Zellulare Automaten KW - Kopplung KW - stochastic ordering KW - Probabilistic Cellular Automata KW - monotone coupling Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6593 ER -