Compressibility and Stochastic Stability of Monotone Markov Chain

Abstract

For a stochastically monotone Markov chain taking values in a Polish space, we present a number of conditions for existence and for uniqueness of its stationary regime, as well as for closeness of its transient trajectories. In particular, we generalise a basic result by Bhattacharya and Majumdar (2007) where a certain form of mixing, or swap condition was assumed uniformly over the state space. We do not rely on continuity properties of transition probabilities.