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ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 2527-2559出版社
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/13-AAP984
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Motivated by queues with many servers, we study Brownian steady-state approximations for continuous time Markov chains (CTMCs). Our approximations are based on diffusion models (rather than a diffusion limit) whose steady-state, we prove, approximates that of the Markov chain with notable. precision. Strong approximations provide such limitless approximations for process dynamics. Our focus here is on steady-state distributions, and the diffusion model that we propose is tractable relative to strong approximations. Within an asymptotic framework, in which a scale parameter n is taken large, a uniform (in the scale parameter) Lyapunov condition imposed on the sequence of diffusion models guarantees that the gap between the steady-state moments of the diffusion and those of the properly centered and scaled CTMCs shrinks at a rate of root n. Our proofs build on gradient estimates for solutions of the Poisson equations associated with the (sequence of) diffusion models and on elementary martingale arguments. As a by-product of our analysis, we explore connections between Lyapunov functions for the fluid model, the diffusion model and the CTMC.
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