Stochastic approximation of the paths of killed Markov processes conditioned on survival

Abstract

Reinforced processes are known to provide a stochastic representation for the quasi-stationary distribution of a given killed Markov process – describing the killed Markov process at fixed time instants. In this paper we shall adapt the construction to provide a pathwise description. We also obtain a stochastic approximation for the quasi-limiting distributions of reducible killed Markov processes as a corollary.