%0 Journal Article
%T Merging for inhomogeneous finite Markov chains, part II: Nash and log-Sobolev inequalities
%A L. Saloff-Coste
%A J. Z¨²£żiga
%J Mathematics
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%R 10.1214/10-AOP572
%X We study time-inhomogeneous Markov chains with finite state spaces using Nash and logarithmic-Sobolev inequalities, and the notion of $c$-stability. We develop the basic theory of such functional inequalities in the time-inhomogeneous context and provide illustrating examples.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1560v1