Showing papers by "Antonio Di Crescenzo published in 2004"
TL;DR: In this article, a measure of discrepancy between past-life distributions is proposed, based on Kullback-Leibler discrimination information and of discrimination information introduced by Ebrahimi and Kirmani.
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TL;DR: In this article, the spatial symmetry property of truncated birth-death processes was extended to a wider family of continuous-time Markov chains and applied to a bilateral birth death process with jumps.
Abstract: The spatial symmetry property of truncated birth-death processes studied in Di Crescenzo [6] is extended to a wider family of continuous-time Markov chains. We show that it yields simple expressions for first-passage-time densities and avoiding transition probabilities, and apply it to a bilateral birth-death process with jumps. It is finally proved that this symmetry property is preserved within the family of strongly similar Markov chains.
10 citations