The stability of Markov operators on Polish spaces

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Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University, Bankowa 14, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

A sufficient condition for the asymptotic stability of Markov operators acting on measures defined on Polish spaces is presented.

asymptotic stability, Markov operators

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