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Different uses of the word "ergodic"There appear to be two definitions of the word ergodic. The dynamical systems definition says that a measure space $(X,\mathit B, \mu)$ and measure preserving transformation $T: X \mapsto X$ is ergodic if
However, a Markov chain is ergodic if
I've used the Markov chain notation and definition found here I would like to know if these definitions are equivalent. Of course, I am asking here because it seems to me that they are not. For example, if $X=\{0,1\}$, $\mathit B = \{\emptyset, \{0\},\{1\},X\}$, $\mu(\{0\})=0,\mu(\{1\})=1$ and $T(x) = 1$ for all $x\in X$, then $(X,\mathit B, \mu, T)$ is ergodic as a dynamical system, but the equivalent Markov chain is not ergodic, since the probability of traveling from $0$ to $1$ is zero.
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