Transactions of the AMS. Year 1957. Volume 086. Number 02.


Topologies of group algebras and a theorem of Littlewood
Sigurđur Helgason
269-283


Collineations and generalized incidence matrices
D. R. Hughes
284-296


Peano spaces which are either strongly cyclic or two-cyclic
G. Ralph Strohl
297-308


On the fundamental theorems of the calculus
István S. Gál
309-320


On the continuity and limiting values of functions
István S. Gál
321-334


L'\'etude de l'\'equation $du/d\tau=A(\tau)u$ pour certaines classes d'op\'erateurs non born\'es de l'espace de Hilbert
C. Foiaş; Gh. Gussi; V. Poenaru
335-347


Characteristic classes of homogeneous spaces
Alfred Adler
348-365


The classification of birth and death processes
Samuel Karlin; James McGregor
366-400


The cyclotomic numbers of order sixteen
Albert Leon Whiteman
401-413


Spectral theory for operators on a Banach space
Errett Bishop
414-445


The approximate functional equation of Hecke's Dirichlet series
T. M. Apostol; Abe Sklar
446-462


On order-preserving integration
R. R. Christian
463-488


Some generalizations of full normality
M. J. Mansfield
489-505


A note on summability methods and spectral analysis
Carl S. Herz
506-510


Some limit theorems for nonhomogeneous Markoff processes
A. Fuchs
511-531

Abstract: We intend to study some problems related to the asymptotic behaviour of a physical system the evolution of which is markovian. The typical example of such an evolution is furnished by an homogeneous discrete chain with a finite number of possible states considered first by A. A. Markoff. In §1 we recall briefly the main results of this theory and in §2 we treat its obvious generalization to the continuous parameter case. In §3 we pass to the proper object of this paper and we establish a limit theorem for time-homogeneous Markoff processes. This limit theorem is then extended to the nonhomogeneous case under some supplementary conditions (§4). Finally we give an application of this theory to random functions connected with a Markoff process (§5).


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