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= Solution
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Condition on the full sampled history through time $n$. The <Markov property> of $X$ implies that its future after $2n$ depends on that history only through $X_{2n}=Y_n$. Summing over the intermediate state gives
$$
\mathbb P(Y_{n+1}=j\mid Y_0,\ldots,Y_n=i)
=\sum_kP_{ik}P_{kj}=(P^2)_{ij}.
$$
Thus \b[$Y$ is a Markov chain with transition <matrix> $P^2$]. This is a deterministic-time sampled <Markov chain>.

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