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Submartingales and stochastic stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Phil Diamond
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Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland.
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Sufficient conditions, involving the existence of a Lyapunov function which is a submartingale of special type, are given for the instability of stochastic discrete time systems.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1974

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