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For convenience, we refer to them as Markov additive processes, or MAPs for short. Historically used in the setting of queuing theory, MAPs have often been written about when the underlying modulating process is an ergodic Markov chain on a finite state space, cf. (Asmussen in Applied probability and queues, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003; Asmussen and Albrecher in Ruin probabilities, Hackensack, 2010), not to mention the classical contributions of Pacheco and Prabhu (Markov additive processes of arrivals, CRC, Boca Raton, 1995), Prabhu (Stochastic storage processes, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998). Recent works have addressed the strong law of large numbers when the underlying modulating process is a general Markov processes; cf. as reported (Kyprianou et al. Entrance laws at the origin of self-similar Markov processes in high dimensions, 2019; Yaran and \u00c7a\u011flar in ALEA Lat Am J Probab Math Stat 22:991\u20131010, 2025) . 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