Coin-turning, Random Walks And Inhomogeneous Markov Chains

This research monograph explores new frontiers in Markov chains. Although time-homogeneous Markov chains are well understood, this is not at all the case with time-inhomogeneous ones. The book, after a review on the classical theory of homogeneous chains, including the electrical network approach, introduces several new models which involve inhomogeneous chains as well as related new types of random walks (for example, 'coin turning', 'conservative' and 'Rademacher' walk). Scaling limits, the br