Efficient Markovian couplings: Examples and counterexamples
Abstract
In this paper we study the notion of an efficient coupling of Markov processes. Informally, an efficient coupling is one which couples at the
maximum possible exponential rate, as given by the spectral gap. This notion is of interest not only for its own sake, but also of growing importance
arising from the recent advent of methods of "perfect simulation": it helps to establish the "price of perfection" for such methods. In general
one can always achieve efficient coupling if the coupling is allowed to "cheat" (if each component's behaviour is affected by future behaviour of the other component), but the situation is more interesting if the coupling
is required to be co-adapted. We present an informal heuristic for the existence of an efficient coupling, and justify the heuristic by proving rigorous results and examples in the contexts of finite reversible Markov chains and of reflecting Brownian motion in planar domains.
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