Large deviation principles for stationary processes (Q1112438)

The authors establish a level-three type large deviation theorem for stationary sequences with values in a compact separable metric space under a ratio-mixing condition for associated conditional probabilities. Under an additional continuity assumption they identify the rate function as a relative entropy. The authors relate their results to those of Donsker and Varadhan and apply the main theorems to a certain class of Gibbs measures.