Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2023
In this paper, we consider absorbing Markov chains $X_n$ admitting a quasi-stationary measure
$\mu $ on M where the transition kernel
${\mathcal P}$ admits an eigenfunction
$0\leq \eta \in L^1(M,\mu )$. We find conditions on the transition densities of
${\mathcal P}$ with respect to
$\mu $ which ensure that
$\eta (x) \mu (\mathrm {d} x)$ is a quasi-ergodic measure for
$X_n$ and that the Yaglom limit converges to the quasi-stationary measure
$\mu $-almost surely. We apply this result to the random logistic map
$X_{n+1} = \omega _n X_n (1-X_n)$ absorbed at
${\mathbb R} \setminus [0,1],$ where
$\omega _n$ is an independent and identically distributed sequence of random variables uniformly distributed in
$[a,b],$ for
$1\leq a <4$ and
$b>4.$
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