On an irreducibility type condition for the ergodicity of nonconservative semigroups

We propose a simple criterion, inspired from the irreducible aperiodic Markov chains, to derive the exponential convergence of general positive semigroups. When not checkable on the whole state space, it can be combined to the use of Lyapunov functions. It differs from the usual generalization of ir...

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Main Authors: Cloez, Bertrand, Gabriel, Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Académie des sciences 2020-10-01
Series:Comptes Rendus. Mathématique
Online Access:https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique/articles/10.5802/crmath.92/
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Summary:We propose a simple criterion, inspired from the irreducible aperiodic Markov chains, to derive the exponential convergence of general positive semigroups. When not checkable on the whole state space, it can be combined to the use of Lyapunov functions. It differs from the usual generalization of irreducibility and is based on the accessibility of the trajectories of the underlying dynamics. It allows to obtain new existence results of principal eigenelements, and their exponential attractiveness, for a nonlocal selection-mutation population dynamics model defined in a space-time varying environment.
ISSN:1778-3569