A museum consists of six rooms of equal sizes arranged in the form of a grid with three rows and two columns. Each interior wall has a door that connects to adjacent rooms. Guards move through the rooms through the interior doors. Represent the movements of each guard in the museum as a Markov chain, and show that his states are periodic with period t = 2.

Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction
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Author:David Poole
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1. A museum consists of six rooms of equal sizes arranged in the form of a grid with three rows and two columns. Each interior wall has a door that connects to adjacent rooms. Guards move through the rooms through the interior doors. Represent the movements of each guard in the museum as a Markov chain, and show that his states are periodic with period t = 2.

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