Solution

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For the only entrance is from , so stationarity requires . Induction gives , and normalization using the exponential series gives . Hence
The remaining zero-state equation also holds: , so . Thus this normalized Poisson law really is stationary, not just a solution of the positive-state equations. Irreducibility makes the stationary probability law unique.

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