Abstract

We derive the moments of the guesswork , the number of attempts required to correctly guess the output of a random source, for a source determined by a Markov chain via a large deviations type estimate. These moments are related to the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue of the matrix formed by element-wise powers of the Markov chain's transition matrix.

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