A large deviation principle for symmetric Markov processes with Feynman-Kac functional (Q662868)

A large deviation principle for occupation distribution of a symmetric Markov process with Feynman-Kac functional is established. As an application, the \(L^p\)-independence of the spectral bounds of a Feynman-Kac semigroup is proved. In the particular case of one-dimensional diffusion processes it is showed that the following alternative holds: if no boundaries are natural (in Feller's boundary classification), then the \(L^p\) independence holds; and if one of the boundaries is natural, then the \(L^p\) independence holds if and only if the \(L^2\)-spectral bound is non-positive.