Markov chains and dynamic geometry of polygons

✍ Scribed by Jiu Ding; L Richard Hitt; Xin-Min Zhang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 182 KB
• Volume: 367
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0024-3795
• DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3795(02)00634-1

✦ Synopsis

In this paper we construct sequences of polygons from a given n-sided cyclic polygon by iterated procedures and study the limiting behaviors of these sequences in terms of nonnegative matrices and Markov chains.