arXiv:2606.19859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent research on Doeblin coefficients has shed light on their usefulness as a multi-way generalization of the Dobrushin contraction coefficient for TV distance, in a separate vein from their classic role in the theory of Markov chain ergodicity. However, strong conditions, such as being bounded away from 0, are typically necessary for Doeblin coefficients to establish the existence of information contraction. Building on recently formulated concepts of nonlinear information contraction, we aim to propose a finer-grained Doeblin-based characte
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Nothing immediate changes; this paper contributes to academic understanding of Doeblin coefficients and information contraction, which may inform future, more applied research.
Further theoretical understanding of information contraction in Markov chains and related probabilistic models is advanced.
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