Reflected biased random walk on the nonnegative integers

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Reflected biased random walk on the nonnegative integers by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Let a discrete-time chain move up with probability and down with probability away from zero, while at zero it moves up with probability and stays with probability . It is transient for , null recurrent for , and positive recurrent for . In the positive-recurrent case its invariant distribution is
and aperiodicity from the self-loop at zero implies convergence to this distribution.

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