On the spectral radius of the $(L,\kappa )$-lazy Markov chain

Li Qian, Zhenyao Sun

We consider an $(L,\kappa )$-lazy operation on an irreducible Markov transition probability $P$ with state space $S$ where $L\subset S$ and $\kappa \in [0,1)$. For each $x\in L$ and $y\in S$,…