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I know that the deterministic dynamics in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo/Hybrid Monte Carlo are reversible and the numerical integrators one uses to approximate them are reversible too. But HMC consists of 2 steps:

  1. Sample velocity
  2. Run Hamiltonian Dynamics with accept/reject

From the reversibility of the integrator and the form of the accept/reject ratio I guess one can show that the step 2 is reversible. But is the full algorithm with step 1 and step 2 reversible with respect to the measure one wants to sample?

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