A short operator proof of Hoeffding inequalities for Markov chains
We give a short operator-theoretic proof of the sharp Hoeffding inequality for additive functionals of a Markov chain on a general state space with an $L^2(\pi)$ spectral gap, recovering the bound of Fan et al. (2021). We further show that the same argument yields the Hoeffding inequality of Neeman et al. (2024) for Ma...