Immigration chain with complete population resets

ID: immigration-chain-with-complete-population-resets

From state zero the chain always goes to one. From a positive integer , it resets to zero with probability and goes to otherwise. The stationary equations give and , and normalization gives the displayed distribution. The chain is irreducible and positive recurrent; its return lengths two and three also make it aperiodic. The long-run proportion of time above a positive integer is .

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