Negative entropy, zero temperature and Markov chains on the interval (Q2271919)

The problem considered in the paper is to find stationary Markov probabilities \(\mu_\infty\) on \([0,1]^{\mathbb{N}}\) that maximize the value \(\int Ad\mu\), where \(A\) is a potential on \([0,1]^{\mathbb{N}}\), among all stationary probabilities \(\mu\) on \([0,1]^{\mathbb{N}}\). The main purpose of the authors is to show, under the hypothesis of uniqueness of the maximizing probability, a large deviation principle for a family of absolutely continuous Markov probabilities \(\mu_\beta\) which weakly converges to \(\mu_\infty\).