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Concentration of measure on product spaces with applications to Markov processes.

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Concentration of measure on product spaces with applications to Markov processes. / Blower, Gordon; Bolley, Francois.
In: Studia Mathematica, Vol. 175, No. 1, 2006, p. 47-72.

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Blower G, Bolley F. Concentration of measure on product spaces with applications to Markov processes. Studia Mathematica. 2006;175(1):47-72. doi: 10.4064/sm175-1-3

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Blower, Gordon ; Bolley, Francois. / Concentration of measure on product spaces with applications to Markov processes. In: Studia Mathematica. 2006 ; Vol. 175, No. 1. pp. 47-72.

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