 Coupling inequality for total variation

ID: coupling-inequality-for-total-variation

Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24

For any coupling of two Markov chains and its coalescence time

T

∥ L (X_{t}) - L (Y_{t}) ∥_{TV} \leq P (T > t) .

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