Brownian occupation measures, compactness and large deviations

DOI10.1214/15-AOP1065MaRDI QIDQ504252zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chiranjib Mukherjee, S. R. S. Varadhan

Publication date 13 January 2017

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5259

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motioncompactificationlarge deviationsoccupation measurespolaron problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35) Brownian motion (60J65)

Abstract: In proving large deviation estimates, the lower bound for open sets and upper bound for compact sets are essentially local estimates. On the other hand, the upper bound for closed sets is global and compactness of space or an exponential tightness estimate is needed to establish it. In dealing with the occupation measure $L_t(A)=frac1tin{t}_0^t{1}_A(W_s)ds$ of the $d$ dimensional Brownian motion, which is not positive recurrent, there is no possibility of exponential tightness. The space of probability distributions $mathcal{M}_1(R^d)$ can be compactified by replacing the usual topology of weak convergence by the vague toplogy, where the space is treated as the dual of continuous functions with compact support. This is essentially the one point compactification of $R^d$ by adding a point at $infty$ that results in the compactification of $mathcal{M}_1(R^d)$ by allowing some mass to escape to the point at $infty$. If one were to use only test functions that are continuous and vanish at $infty$ then the compactification results in the space of sub-probability distributions $mathcal{M}_{le1}(R^d)$ by ignoring the mass at $infty$. The main drawback of this compactification is that it ignores the underlying translation invariance. More explicitly, we may be interested in the space of equivalence classes of orbits $widetilde{mathcalM}_1=widetilde{mathcalM}_1(R^d)$ under the action of the translation group $R^d$ on $mathcal{M}_1(R^d)$. There are problems for which it is natural to compactify this space of orbits. We will provide such a compactification, prove a large deviation principle there and give an application to a relevant problem.

Review text

In large deviation principles, the lower bound for open sets and the upper bound for compact sets are essentially local estimates. However, the upper bound for closed sets is global. Establishing the large deviation upper bound for closed sets usually requires compactness of the space or an exponential tightness estimate. The purpose of this paper is to study large deviations of the occupation measure of Brownian motion in \(\mathbb{R}^d\), for which there is no hope of getting exponential tightness. The space of probability measures \(\mathcal{M}_1(\mathbb{R}^d)\) on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) can be compactified by replacing the topology of weak convergence with the vague topology. This compactification ignores the underlying translation invariance. However, there are problems for which the underlying translation invariance is very important. In this paper, the authors present a compactification of the quotient space \(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_1\) of \(\mathcal{M}_1(\mathbb{R}^d)\) under the action of the translation group in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) and establish a large deviation principle for the Brownian occupation measure on this quotient space. The compactification given in this paper should be useful in other problems, too.

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