A large deviations heuristic made precise

DOI10.1017/S0305004199004260MaRDI QIDQ4493493zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neil O'Connell

Publication date 19 September 2000

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004199004260

zbMATH Keywords

large deviation principlerate functionSanov's theoremrelative entropy functionextended contraction principleMonge-Kontorovich-Ornstein distancestochastic bin-packing problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10)

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