Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: The elapsed time between two transient state observations for an
  absorbing Markov chain   Consider a system evolving according to an absorbing discrete-time Markov
chain with known transition matrix. The state of the system is observed at two
points in time, separated by an unknown number of generations. We are
interested in calculating the expected elapsed time and its variance. We
provide a novel, exact solution, which is computable from the fundamental
matrix of a related absorbing Markov chain. This solution may be useful in
population genetics for computing the expected age of a segregating allele
without requiring diffusion approximation.

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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph