Some New Results on Strong Ergodicity

Coupling method is used to obtain the explicit upper and lower bounds for convergence rates in strong ergodicity for Markov processes. For one-dimensional diffusion processes and birth-death processes, these bounds are sharp in the sense that the upper one and the lower one are only different by a constant. This announcement is an outline of an original research paper “Convergence Rates in Strong Ergodicity for Markov Processes” that will appear in Stoch. Process. Their Appl.