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Strong law of large numbers for Markov chains field on a Bethe tree. (English) Zbl 0981.60064
Summary: We study the strong law of large numbers on the frequencies of states for a Markov chain field on a Bethe tree. In the proof, we apply a new technique in the study of strong limit theorems.

##### MSC:
 60J10 Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) 60F15 Strong limit theorems
##### Keywords:
strong law of large numbers; frequencies of states
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