Large Deviation Principle for Markov Chains in Continuous Time

  • Authors:
  • A. De La Fortelle

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Problems of Information Transmission
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Let Yt be a homogeneous nonexplosive Markov process with generator R defined on a denumerable state space E (not necessarily ergodic). We introduce the empirical generator Gt of Yt and prove the Ruelle–Lanford property, which implies the weak LDP. In a fairly broad setting, we show how to perform almost all classical operations (e.g., contraction) on the weak LDP under suitable assumptions, whence Sanov's theorem follows.