## Electronic Communications in Probability

### Practical criteria for $R$-positive recurrence of unbounded semigroups

#### Abstract

The goal of this note is to show how recent results on the theory of quasi-stationary distributions allow us to deduce general criteria for the geometric convergence of normalized unbounded semigroups.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 25 (2020), paper no. 6, 11 pp.

Dates
Received: 17 April 2019
Accepted: 12 January 2020
First available in Project Euclid: 28 January 2020

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1580180424

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/20-ECP288

#### Citation

Champagnat, Nicolas; Villemonais, Denis. Practical criteria for $R$-positive recurrence of unbounded semigroups. Electron. Commun. Probab. 25 (2020), paper no. 6, 11 pp. doi:10.1214/20-ECP288. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1580180424

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