Solution

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Now . Again is independent of the whole previous history, so the recursion is a Markov chain obtained from independent innovations. To remain at , the new observation must be at most ; to jump to , it must equal . Thus the transition probabilities are
The upper tail sums to , complementing the holding probability .

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