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Theorem 4.1.18 Suppose that \( \\left\\{ {\\mu }_{\\epsilon }\\right\\} \) satisfies the LDP in a regular topological space \( \\mathcal{X} \) with rate function \( I \) . Then, for any base \( \\mathcal{A} \) of the topology of \( \\mathcal{X} \), and for any \( x \\in \\mathcal{X} \) ,\n\n\\[ \nI\\left( x\\right) = \...
Proof: Fix \( x \\in \\mathcal{X} \) and let\n\n\\[ \n\\ell \\left( x\\right) = \\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{\\{ A \\in \\mathcal{A} : x \\in A\\} }}\\mathop{\\inf }\\limits_{{y \\in \\bar{A}}}I\\left( y\\right) .\n\\]\n\n(4.1.20)\n\nSuppose that \( I\\left( x\\right) > \\ell \\left( x\\right) \) . Then, in particular, \...
Yes
Lemma 4.1.21 Let \( \mathcal{A} \) be a base for a Hausdorff topological vector space \( \mathcal{X} \) , such that in addition to condition (4.1.14), for every \( {A}_{1},{A}_{2} \in \mathcal{A} \) ,\n\n\[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log {\mu }_{\epsilon }\left( \frac{{A}_{1} + {A}_{2}...
Proof: It suffices to show that the condition (4.1.22) yields the convexity of the rate function \( I \) of (4.1.13). To this end, fix \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2} \in \mathcal{X} \) and \( \delta > 0 \) . Let \( x = \left( {{x}_{1} + {x}_{2}}\right) /2 \) and let \( {I}^{\delta } \) denote the \( \delta \) -rate function. Then,...
Yes
Lemma 4.1.23 Suppose the topological space \( \mathcal{X} \) has a countable base. For any family of probability measures \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \), there exists a sequence \( {\epsilon }_{k} \rightarrow 0 \) such that \( \left\{ {\mu }_{{\epsilon }_{k}}\right\} \) satisfies the weak LDP in \( \mathcal{X...
Proof: Fix a countable base \( \mathcal{A} \) for the topology of \( \mathcal{X} \) and a sequence \( {\epsilon }_{n} \rightarrow 0 \) . By Tychonoff’s theorem (Theorem B.3), the product topology makes \( \mathcal{Y} = \) \( {\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }^{\mathcal{A}} \) into a compact metrizable space. Since \( \ma...
Yes
Lemma 4.1.24 Suppose \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) is a family of tight (Borel) probability measures on a metric space \( \left( {\mathcal{X}, d}\right) \), such that the upper bound (1.2.12) holds for all compact sets and some rate function \( I\left( \cdot \right) \) . Then, for any base \( \mathcal{A} \) ...
Proof: We argue by contradiction, fixing a base \( \mathcal{A} \) of the metric topology and \( x \in \mathcal{X} \) for which (4.1.25) fails. For any \( m \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \), there exists some \( A \in \mathcal{A} \) such that \( x \in A \subset {B}_{x,{m}^{-1}} \) . Hence, for some \( \delta > 0 \) and any \( ...
Yes
Theorem 4.2.1 (Contraction principle) Let \( \mathcal{X} \) and \( \mathcal{Y} \) be Hausdorff topological spaces and \( f : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathcal{Y} \) a continuous function. Consider a good rate function \( I : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0,\infty }\right\rbrack \) .\n\n(a) For each \( y \in \mat...
Proof: (a) Clearly, \( {I}^{\prime } \) is nonnegative. Since \( I \) is a good rate function, for all \( y \in f\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) the infimum in the definition of \( {I}^{\prime } \) is obtained at some point of \( \mathcal{X} \) . Thus, the level sets of \( {I}^{\prime },{\Psi }_{{I}^{\prime }}\left( \alph...
Yes
Theorem 4.2.4 (Inverse contraction principle) Let \( \mathcal{X} \) and \( \mathcal{Y} \) be Hausdorff topological spaces. Suppose that \( g : \mathcal{Y} \rightarrow \mathcal{X} \) is a continuous bijection, and that \( \left\{ {\nu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) is an exponentially tight family of probability measures on \...
Proof: Note first that for every \( \alpha < \infty \), by the continuity of \( g \), the level set \( \left\{ {y : {I}^{\prime }\left( y\right) \leq \alpha }\right\} = {g}^{-1}\left( {{\Psi }_{I}\left( \alpha \right) }\right) \) is closed. Moreover, \( {I}^{\prime } \geq 0 \), and hence \( {I}^{\prime } \) is a rate f...
Yes
Corollary 4.2.6 Let \( \\left\\{ {\\mu }_{\\epsilon }\\right\\} \) be an exponentially tight family of probability measures on \( \\mathcal{X} \) equipped with the topology \( {\\tau }_{1} \). If \( \\left\\{ {\\mu }_{\\epsilon }\\right\\} \) satisfies an LDP with respect to a Hausdorff topology \( {\\tau }_{2} \) on \...
Proof: The proof follows from Theorem 4.2.4 by using as \( g \) the natural embedding of \( \\left( {\\mathcal{X},{\\tau }_{1}}\\right) \) onto \( \\left( {\\mathcal{X},{\\tau }_{2}}\\right) \), which is continuous because \( {\\tau }_{1} \) is finer than \( {\\tau }_{2} \). Note that, since \( g \) is continuous, the ...
Yes
Theorem 4.2.13 If an LDP with a good rate function \( I\left( \cdot \right) \) holds for the probability measures \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \), which are exponentially equivalent to \( \left\{ {\widetilde{\mu }}_{\epsilon }\right\} \), then the same LDP holds for \( \left\{ {\widetilde{\mu }}_{\epsilon }\ri...
Proof: This theorem is a consequence of the forthcoming Theorem 4.2.16. To avoid repetitions, a direct proof is omitted.
No
Theorem 4.2.16 Suppose that for every \( m \), the family of measures \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon, m}\right\} \) satisfies the LDP with rate function \( {I}_{m}\left( \cdot \right) \) and that \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon, m}\right\} \) are exponentially good approximations of \( \left\{ {\widetilde{\mu }}_{\epsilon }\r...
Proof: (a) Throughout, let \( \left\{ {Z}_{\epsilon, m}\right\} \) be the exponentially good approximations of \( \left\{ {\widetilde{Z}}_{\epsilon }\right\} \), having the joint laws \( \left\{ {P}_{\epsilon, m}\right\} \) with marginals \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon, m}\right\} \) and \( \left\{ {\widetilde{\mu }}_{\ep...
Yes
Corollary 4.2.21 Suppose \( f : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathcal{Y} \) is a continuous map from a Hausdorff topological space \( \mathcal{X} \) to the metric space \( \left( {\mathcal{Y}, d}\right) \) and that \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfy the LDP with the good rate function \( I : \mathcal{X} \right...
Proof: The contraction principle (Theorem 4.2.1) yields the desired LDP for \( \left\{ {{\mu }_{\epsilon } \circ {f}^{-1}}\right\} \) . By (4.2.22), these measures are exponentially equivalent to \( \left\{ {{\mu }_{\epsilon } \circ {f}_{\epsilon }^{-1}}\right\} \), and the corollary follows from Theorem 4.2.13.
Yes
Theorem 4.2.23 Let \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) be a family of probability measures that satisfies the LDP with a good rate function I on a Hausdorff topological space \( \mathcal{X} \) , and for \( m = 1,2,\ldots \), let \( {f}_{m} : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathcal{Y} \) be continuous functions, with \( \...
Proof: By assumption, the functions \( {f}_{m} : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathcal{Y} \) are continuous. Hence, by the contraction principle (Theorem 4.2.1), for each \( m \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \), the family of measures \( \left\{ {{\mu }_{\epsilon } \circ {f}_{m}^{-1}}\right\} \) satisfies the LDP on \( \mathcal{Y} \...
Yes
Lemma 4.3.4 If \( \phi : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is lower semicontinuous and the large deviations lower bound holds with \( I : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0,\infty }\right\rbrack \), then
\[ \mathop{\liminf }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log E\left\lbrack {e}^{\phi \left( {Z}_{\epsilon }\right) /\epsilon }\right\rbrack \geq \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in \mathcal{X}}}\{ \phi \left( x\right) - I\left( x\right) \} . \]
Yes
Lemma 4.3.6 If \( \phi : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is an upper semicontinuous function for which the tail condition (4.3.2) holds, and the large deviations upper bound holds with the good rate function \( I : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0,\infty }\right\rbrack \), then
\[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log E\left\lbrack {e}^{\phi \left( {Z}_{\epsilon }\right) /\epsilon }\right\rbrack \leq \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in \mathcal{X}}}\{ \phi \left( x\right) - I\left( x\right) \} . \]
Yes
Lemma 4.3.8 Condition (4.3.3) implies the tail condition (4.3.2).
Proof of Lemma 4.3.4: Fix \( x \in \mathcal{X} \) and \( \delta > 0 \) . Since \( \phi \left( \cdot \right) \) is lower semicontinuous, it follows that there exists a neighborhood \( G \) of \( x \) such that \( \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{y \in G}}\phi \left( y\right) \geq \phi \left( x\right) - \delta \) . Hence,\n\n\[ \...
Yes
Theorem 4.4.2 (Bryc) Suppose that the family \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) is exponentially tight and that the limit \( {\Lambda }_{f} \) in (4.4.1) exists for every \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) . Then \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfies the LDP with the good rate function \[ I...
Proof: Since \( {\Lambda }_{0} = 0 \), it follows that \( I\left( \cdot \right) \geq 0 \) . Moreover, \( I\left( x\right) \) is lower semicontinuous, since it is the supremum of continuous functions. Due to the exponential tightness of \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \), the LDP asserted follows once the weak LDP...
Yes
Lemma 4.4.6 (Lower bound) If \( {\Lambda }_{f} \) exists for each \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \), then, for every open \( G \subset \mathcal{X} \) and each \( x \in G \), \[ \mathop{\liminf }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log {\mu }_{\epsilon }\left( G\right) \geq - I\left( x\right) . \]
Proof of Lemma 4.4.6: Fix \( x \in \mathcal{X} \) and a neighborhood \( G \) of \( x \) . Since \( \mathcal{X} \) is a completely regular topological space, there exists a continuous function \( f : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \), such that \( f\left( x\right) = 1 \) and \( f\left( y\right) ...
Yes
Lemma 4.4.8 Let \( \mathcal{X} \) be a locally convex, Hausdorff topological vector space. Then the class \( \mathcal{G} \) of all continuous, bounded above, concave functions on \( \mathcal{X} \) is well-separating.
Proof: Let \( {\mathcal{X}}^{ * } \) denote the topological dual of \( \mathcal{X} \), and let \( {\mathcal{G}}_{0} \triangleq \{ \lambda \left( x\right) + c \) : \( \lambda \in {\mathcal{X}}^{ * }, c \in \mathbb{R}\} \) . Note that \( {\mathcal{G}}_{0} \) contains the constant functions, and by the Hahn-Banach theorem...
Yes
Theorem 4.5.10 Let \( \mathcal{X} \) be a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space. Assume that \( {\mu }_{\epsilon } \) satisfies the LDP with a good rate function I. Suppose in addition that\n\n\[ \bar{\Lambda }\left( \lambda \right) \triangleq \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon {\La...
Proof: (a) Fix \( \lambda \in {\mathcal{X}}^{ * } \) and \( \gamma > 1 \) . By assumption, \( \bar{\Lambda }\left( {\gamma \lambda }\right) < \infty \), and Varadhan's lemma (Theorem 4.3.1) applies for the continuous function\n\n\( \lambda : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) . Thus, \( \Lambda \left( \lambda \right...
Yes
Corollary 4.5.13 Suppose that both condition (4.5.11) and the assumptions of Lemma 4.1.21 hold for the family \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \), which is exponentially tight. Then \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfies in \( \mathcal{X} \) the LDP with the good, convex rate function \( {\Lambda }^{ *...
Proof: By Lemma 4.1.21, \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfies a weak LDP with a convex rate function. As \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) is exponentially tight, it is deduced that it satisfies the full LDP with a convex, good rate function. The corollary then follows from parts (a) and (b) of Theo...
Yes
Theorem 4.5.14 Suppose that \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfies a weak LDP with a convex rate function \( I\left( \cdot \right) \), and that \( \mathcal{X} \) is a locally convex, Hausdorff topological vector space. Assume that for each \( \lambda \in {\mathcal{X}}^{ * } \), the limits \( {\Lambda }_{\la...
Proof: Fix \( \lambda \in {\mathcal{X}}^{ * } \) . By the inequality (4.5.15),\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in \mathcal{X}}}\{ \langle \lambda, x\rangle - I\left( x\right) \} = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{a \in \mathbb{R}}}\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\{ x : \left( {\langle \lambda, x\rangle - a}\right) > 0\} }}\{ \langle \...
Yes
Theorem 4.5.20 (Baldi) Suppose that \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) are exponentially tight probability measures on \( \mathcal{X} \) . (a) For every closed set \( F \subset \mathcal{X} \) , \[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log {\mu }_{\epsilon }\left( F\right) \leq - \mathop{\in...
Proof: (a) The upper bound is a consequence of Theorem 4.5.3 and the assumed exponential tightness. (b) If \( \bar{\Lambda }\left( \lambda \right) = - \infty \) for some \( \lambda \in {\mathcal{X}}^{ * } \), then \( {\bar{\Lambda }}^{ * }\left( \cdot \right) \equiv \infty \) and the large deviations lower bound trivia...
Yes
Theorem 4.6.1 (Dawson-Gärtner) Let \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) be a family of probability measures on \( \mathcal{X} \), such that for any \( j \in J \) the Borel probability measures \( {\mu }_{\epsilon } \circ {p}_{j}^{-1} \) on \( {\mathcal{Y}}_{j} \) satisfy the LDP with the good rate function \( {I}_{...
Proof: Clearly, \( I\left( \mathbf{x}\right) \) is nonnegative. For any \( \alpha \in \lbrack 0,\infty ) \) and \( j \in J \), let \( {\Psi }_{{I}_{j}}\left( \alpha \right) \) denote the compact level set of \( {I}_{j} \), i.e., \( {\Psi }_{{I}_{j}}\left( \alpha \right) \triangleq \left\{ {{y}_{j} : {I}_{j}\left( {y}_{...
Yes
Lemma 4.6.5 If \( I\left( \cdot \right) \) is a good rate function on \( \mathcal{X} \) such that\n\n\[ \n{I}_{j}\left( y\right) = \inf \left\{ {I\left( \mathbf{x}\right) : \mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{X},\;y = {p}_{j}\left( \mathbf{x}\right) }\right\} ,\n\]\n\nfor any \( y \in {\mathcal{Y}}_{j}, j \in J \), then the identi...
Proof: Fix \( \alpha \in \lbrack 0,\infty ) \) and let \( A \) denote the compact level set \( {\Psi }_{I}\left( \alpha \right) \) . Since \( {p}_{j} : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow {\mathcal{Y}}_{j} \) is continuous for any \( j \in J \), by (4.6.6) \( {A}_{j} \triangleq {\Psi }_{{I}_{j}}\left( \alpha \right) = {p}_{j}\left...
Yes
Theorem 4.6.9 Let Assumption 4.6.8 hold. Further assume that for every \( d \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \) and every \( {\lambda }_{1},\ldots ,{\lambda }_{d} \in \mathcal{W} \), the measures \( \left\{ {{\mu }_{\epsilon } \circ {p}_{{\lambda }_{1},\ldots ,{\lambda }_{d}}^{-1},\epsilon > 0}\right\} \) satisfy the LDP with th...
Proof: Let \( \mathcal{V} \) be the system of all finite dimensional linear subspaces of \( \mathcal{W} \), equipped with the partial ordering defined by inclusion. To each \( V \in \mathcal{V} \), attach its (finite dimensional) algebraic dual \( {V}^{\prime } \) equipped with the \( V \) -topology. The latter are cle...
No
Corollary 4.6.11 Let Assumption 4.6.8 hold.\n\n(a) Suppose that for each \( \lambda \in \mathcal{W} \), the limit\n\n\[ \Lambda \left( \lambda \right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log {\int }_{\mathcal{X}}{e}^{{\epsilon }^{-1}\langle \lambda, x\rangle }{\mu }_{\epsilon }\left( {dx}\right)...
Proof: (a) Fix \( d \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \) and \( {\lambda }_{1},\ldots ,{\lambda }_{d} \in \mathcal{W} \) . Note that the limiting logarithmic moment generating function associated with \( \left\{ {{\mu }_{\epsilon } \circ {p}_{{\lambda }_{1},\ldots ,{\lambda }_{d}}^{-1},\epsilon > 0}\right\} \) is \( g\left( \left...
Yes
Corollary 4.6.14 Let \( \left\{ {\mu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) be an exponentially tight family of Borel probability measures on the locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space \( \mathcal{E} \) . Suppose \( \Lambda \left( \cdot \right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon {\Lambda }_{{\mu }_...
Proof: Let \( \mathcal{W} \) be the topological dual of \( \mathcal{E} \) . Suppose first that \( \mathcal{W} \) is an infinite dimensional vector space, and define \( \mathcal{X} \) according to Assumption 4.6.7. Let \( i : \mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathcal{X} \) denote the map \( x \mapsto i\left( x\right) \), where \...
Yes
Lemma 4.7.4 \( \mathcal{Q}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) contains all sup-measures and all set functions of the form \( {\mu }^{\epsilon } \) for \( \mu \) a probability measure on \( \mathcal{X} \) and \( \epsilon \in (0,1\rbrack \) .
Proof: Conditions (a) and (c) trivially hold for any sup-measure. Since any point \( y \) in an open set \( G \) is also in \( {G}^{-\delta } \) for some \( \delta = \delta \left( y\right) > 0 \), all sup-measures satisfy condition (d). For (b), let \( \nu \left( {\{ y\} }\right) = {e}^{-I\left( y\right) } \) . Fix \( ...
Yes
Lemma 4.7.9 If \( \nu \in \mathcal{Q}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) is tight, then for any \( \Gamma \in {\mathcal{B}}_{\mathcal{X}} \) , \n\n\[ \nu \left( \bar{\Gamma }\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\delta \rightarrow 0}}\nu \left( {\Gamma }^{\delta, o}\right) . \]
Proof: Fix a non-empty set \( \Gamma \in {\mathcal{B}}_{\mathcal{X}},\eta > 0 \) and a compact set \( K = {K}_{\eta } \) for which \( \nu \left( {K}_{\eta }^{c}\right) < \eta \) . For any open set \( G \subset \mathcal{X} \) such that \( \bar{\Gamma } \subset G \), either \( K \subset G \) or else the non-empty compact...
Yes
Lemma 5.1.8 Let \( J \) denote the collection of all ordered finite subsets of \( (0,1\rbrack \) . For any \( j = \left\{ {0 < {t}_{1} < {t}_{2} < \cdots < {t}_{\left| j\right| } \leq 1}\right\} \in J \) and any \( f : \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \rightarrow \) \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \), let \( {p}_{j}\left( f\right) ...
Proof: Fix \( j \in J \) and observe that \( {\mu }_{n} \circ {p}_{j}^{-1} \) is the law of the random vector \[ {Z}_{n}^{j} \triangleq \left( {{Z}_{n}\left( {t}_{1}\right) ,{Z}_{n}\left( {t}_{2}\right) ,\ldots ,{Z}_{n}\left( {t}_{\left| j\right| }\right) }\right) . \] Let \[ {Y}_{n}^{j} \triangleq \left( {{Z}_{n}\left...
Yes
Lemma 5.1.14 Let \( X \) be a real valued random variable distributed according to the law \( \nu \) . Then \( E\left\lbrack {e}^{\delta {\Lambda }_{\nu }^{ * }\left( X\right) }\right\rbrack < \infty \) for all \( \delta < 1 \) .
Proof: Let \( {\Lambda }_{\nu } \) denotes the logarithmic moment generating function of \( X \) . If \( {\Lambda }_{\nu }\left( \lambda \right) = \infty \) for all \( \lambda \neq 0 \), then \( {\Lambda }_{\nu }^{ * } \) is identically zero and the lemma trivially holds. Assume otherwise and recall that then \( \bar{x...
Yes
Theorem 5.1.19 The probability measures \( {\nu }_{\epsilon } \) induced on \( {L}_{\infty }\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \) by \( {Y}_{\epsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \) satisfy the LDP with the good rate function \( I\left( \cdot \right) \) of (5.1.3).
Proof: For any sequence \( {\epsilon }_{m} \rightarrow 0 \) such that \( {\epsilon }_{m}^{-1} \) are integers, Theorem 5.1.19 is a consequence of Theorem 5.1.2. Consider now an arbitrary sequence \( {\epsilon }_{m} \rightarrow 0 \) and let \( {n}_{m} \triangleq \left\lbrack {\epsilon }_{m}^{-1}\right\rbrack \) . By The...
No
Theorem 5.2.3 (Schilder) \( \left\{ {\nu }_{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfies, in \( {C}_{0}\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \), an LDP with good rate function\n\n\[ \n{I}_{w}\left( \phi \right) = \left\{ \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{2}{\int }_{0}^{1}{\left| \dot{\phi }\left( t\right) \right| }^{2}{dt}, & \phi \...
Proof: Observe that the process\n\n\[ \n{\widehat{w}}_{\epsilon }\left( t\right) \triangleq {w}_{\epsilon }\left( {\epsilon \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} t \\ \epsilon \end{matrix}\right\rbrack }\right) \n\]\n\nis merely the process \( {Y}_{\epsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \) of Section 5.1, for the particular choice of \(...
Yes
Theorem 5.3.1 The sequence \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) satisfies in \( {L}_{\infty }\left( {\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }^{d}\right) \) the LDP with the good rate function\n\n\[ I\left( \phi \right) = \left\{ \begin{matrix} {\int }_{{\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }^{d}}{\Lambda }^{ * }\left( \frac{d{\mu }_{\phi ...
Proof: The proof of the theorem follows closely the proof of Theorem 5.1.2. Let \( {\widetilde{\mu }}_{n} \) denote the law on \( {L}_{\infty }\left( {\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }^{d}\right) \) induced by the natural polygonal interpolation of \( {Z}_{n}\left( t\right) \) . E.g., for \( d = 2 \), it is induced by th...
No
Lemma 5.3.3 Let \( \mathcal{X} \) consist of all the maps from \( {\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }^{d} \) to \( \mathbb{R} \) such that the axis \( \left( {0,{t}_{2},\ldots ,{t}_{d}}\right) ,\left( {{t}_{1},0,\ldots ,{t}_{d}}\right) ,\ldots ,\left( {{t}_{1},\ldots ,{t}_{d - 1},0}\right) \) are mapped to zero, and equip...
Proof of Lemma 5.3.3: Applying the projective limit argument as in the proof of Lemma 5.1.6, one concludes that \( {\widetilde{\mu }}_{n} \) satisfies the LDP in \( \mathcal{X} \) with the good rate function\n\n\[ \begin{array}{l} {I}_{\mathcal{X}}\left( \phi \right) = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{k < \infty }}\mathop{\sup ...
Yes
Theorem 5.4.6\n\n\[ \n- \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log {P}_{e}^{\epsilon } = \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{\phi \in \Phi }}{I}_{w}\left( \phi \right) \triangleq {I}_{0} < \infty , \n\] \n\nwhere \n\n\[ \n{I}_{w}\left( \phi \right) = \left\{ \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{2}{\int }_{0}^{2T}{\dot{\phi }...
Proof: Let \( {\widehat{\phi }}_{t} = - {\pi t}/{MT} \) . Since \( F\left( \widehat{\phi }\right) = 0 \), it follows that \n\n\[ \n{I}_{0} \leq {I}_{w}\left( \widehat{\phi }\right) = \frac{{\pi }^{2}}{{M}^{2}T} < \infty . \n\] \n\n(5.4.7) \n\nNow, note that \n\n\[ \n\mathrm{P}\left( {F\left( {\sqrt{\epsilon }{w}_{ \cdo...
Yes
Theorem 5.4.9\n\[ \frac{{\pi }^{2}}{2{M}^{2}T} \leq {I}_{0} \leq \frac{{\pi }^{2}}{{M}^{2}T}. \]
Proof: The upper bound on \( {I}_{0} \) is merely (5.4.7), and it implies that\n\[ {I}_{0} = \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{\phi \in \widehat{\Phi }}}{I}_{w}\left( \phi \right) \]\nwhere\n\[ \widehat{\Phi } = \Phi \cap \left\{ {\phi : {I}_{w}\left( \phi \right) \leq \frac{{\pi }^{2}}{{M}^{2}T}}\right\} .\n\nFix \( \phi \in \w...
No
Lemma 5.4.15 If \( \left| \alpha \right| \leq {2\pi }/\sqrt{3}M \), then\n\n\[ \widetilde{I}\left( \alpha \right) = \frac{3{\alpha }^{2}}{4T}. \]
Proof: Let \( {\psi }_{s} = \min \{ {2T}, T + s\} - \max \{ T, s\} \) (see Fig. 5.4.2), and note that for any \( \phi \in {H}_{1}\left( \left\lbrack {0,{2T}}\right\rbrack \right) \) ,\n\n\[ {\int }_{T}^{2T}\left( {{\phi }_{t} - {\phi }_{t - T}}\right) {dt} = {\int }_{T}^{2T}{\int }_{t - T}^{t}{\dot{\phi }}_{s}{dsdt} = ...
Yes
Lemma 5.5.3 For all \( x \in {\mathbb{R}}^{d}, t > 0 \) ,\n\n\[ V\left( {x, t}\right) = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\lambda \in {\mathbb{R}}^{d}}}\{ \langle \lambda, x\rangle + t\left\lbrack {\langle \lambda, b\rangle - \Lambda \left( \lambda \right) }\right\rbrack \} = t{\Lambda }^{ * }\left( {\frac{x}{t} + b}\right) ,\]\...
Proof: Recall that \( {\Lambda }^{ * }\left( \cdot \right) \) is convex. Hence, for all \( t > 0 \) and any \( \phi \in {\mathcal{{AC}}}^{t} \) with \( {\phi }_{0} = 0 \), by Jensen’s inequality,\n\n\[ {I}_{t}\left( \phi \right) = t{\int }_{0}^{t}{\Lambda }^{ * }\left( {{\dot{\phi }}_{s} + b}\right) \frac{ds}{t} \geq t...
Yes
Theorem 5.5.6 Let Assumption 5.5.5 hold. Then\n\n\[ \n{V}_{A} = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log {T}_{\epsilon }\text{ in probability } \n\]\n\n(5.5.7)\n\nand\n\n\[ \n\bar{t} = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}{L}_{\epsilon }\text{ in probability. } \n\]\n\n(5.5.8)
Proof: The following properties of the cost function, whose proofs are deferred to the end of the section, are needed.\n\nLemma 5.5.10\n\n\[ \n\matho
No
Lemma 5.5.19 For any \( \delta > 0 \) ,\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\mathrm{P}\left( {{T}_{\epsilon } > {e}^{\left( {{V}_{A} + \delta }\right) /\epsilon }}\right) = 0. \]
Proof: Let \( \Delta = \left\lbrack {\left( {\bar{t} + 2}\right) /\epsilon }\right\rbrack \epsilon \) and split the time interval \( \left\lbrack {0,{e}^{\left( {{V}_{A} + \delta }\right) /\epsilon }}\right\rbrack \) into disjoint intervals of length \( \Delta \) each. Let \( {N}_{\epsilon } \) be the (integer part of ...
Yes
\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\mathrm{P}\left( {{T}_{\epsilon, n} \neq {T}_{\epsilon }}\right) = 0 \]
Proof: Divide \( \left\lbrack {{C}_{\epsilon },\infty }\right) \) into the disjoint intervals \( {I}_{\ell } \triangleq \left\lbrack {\left( {2\ell - 1}\right) {C}_{\epsilon },\left( {2\ell + 1}\right) {C}_{\epsilon }}\right) \) , \( \ell = 1,\ldots \) Define the events\n\n\[ {J}_{\ell } \triangleq \left\{ {{Y}_{t}^{\e...
Yes
Theorem 5.6.3 \( \left\{ {x}_{t}^{\epsilon }\right\} \) satisfies the LDP in \( {C}_{0}\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \) with the good rate function
Proof: Theorem 4.2.1 is applicable here, as \( F \) is continuous on \( {C}_{0}\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \) . Indeed, if \( {f}_{1} = F\left( {g}_{1}\right) ,{f}_{2} = F\left( {g}_{2}\right) \), then by (5.6.2), \[ {f}_{1}\left( t\right) - {f}_{2}\left( t\right) = {\int }_{0}^{t}\left\lbrack {b\lef...
Yes
Theorem 5.6.7 If all the entries of \( b \) and \( \sigma \) are bounded, uniformly Lipschitz continuous functions, then \( \left\{ {x}_{t}^{\epsilon }\right\} \), the solution of (5.6.5), satisfies the LDP in \( C\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \) with the good rate function \( {I}_{x}\left( \cdot \righ...
Proof: It suffices to prove the theorem for \( x = 0 \) (as \( x \) may always be moved to the origin by a translation of the coordinates). Then the measure \( {\widetilde{\mu }}_{\epsilon } \) of \( {x}^{\epsilon } \) is supported on \( {C}_{0}\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \) . The proof here is based...
Yes
Corollary 5.6.15 Assume the conditions of Theorem 5.6.7. Then for any compact \( K \subset {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) and any closed \( F \subset C\left( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \right) \) , \[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{y \in K}}\mathrm{P}\left( {{X}^{\eps...
Proof: Let \( - {I}_{K} \) denote the right side of (5.6.16). Fix \( \delta > 0 \) and let \( {I}_{K}^{\delta } \triangleq \min \left\{ {{I}_{K} - \delta ,1/\delta }\right\} \) . Then from (5.6.13), it follows that for any \( x \in K \) , there exists an \( {\epsilon }_{x} > 0 \) such that for all \( \epsilon \leq {\ep...
Yes
Lemma 5.6.18 Let \( {b}_{t},{\sigma }_{t} \) be progressively measurable processes, and let\n\n\[ d{z}_{t} = {b}_{t}{dt} + \sqrt{\epsilon }{\sigma }_{t}d{w}_{t} \]\n\nwhere \( {z}_{0} \) is deterministic. Let \( {\tau }_{1} \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) be a stopping time with respect to the filtration of \( \...
Proof: Let \( {u}_{t} = \phi \left( {z}_{t}\right) \), where \( \phi \left( y\right) = {\left( {\rho }^{2} + {\left| y\right| }^{2}\right) }^{1/\epsilon } \). By Itô’s formula, \( {u}_{t} \) is the strong solution of the stochastic differential equation\n\n\[ d{u}_{t} = \nabla \phi {\left( {z}_{t}\right) }^{\prime }d{z...
Yes
Assume the conditions of Theorem 5.7.3. Let \( {u}_{1}\left( x\right) = \) \( {E}_{x}\left( {\tau }^{\epsilon }\right) \) . Then \( {u}_{1} \) is the unique solution of\n\n\[ \n{L}^{\epsilon }{u}_{1} = - 1,\;\text{ in }\;G\;;\;{u}_{1} = 0,\;\text{ on }\;\partial G.\n\]
Proof: To establish (5.7.5), specialize Theorem 5.7.3 to \( f \equiv 0 \) and \( g \equiv 1 \) .
No
Lemma 5.7.8 Assume (A-4). For any \( \delta > 0 \), there exists \( \rho > 0 \) small enough such that\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x, y \in {B}_{\rho }}}\mathop{\inf }\limits_{{t \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack }}V\left( {x, y, t}\right) < \delta \]\n\n\( \left( {5.7.9}\right) \)\n\nand\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limit...
Proof: Observe that the function \( {\phi }_{s} \) described in Assumption (A-4) results in the upper bound \( V\left( {x, y, t}\right) \leq {M}^{2}t/2 \), where \( t = T\left( \left| {x - y}\right| \right) \rightarrow 0 \) as \( \left| {x - y}\right| \rightarrow 0 \) . Equations (5.7.9) and (5.7.10) follow from this b...
Yes
Corollary 5.7.16 Part (a) of Theorem 5.7.11 holds true under Assumptions (A-1), (A-3), and (A-4). Moreover, it remains true for the exit time of any processes \( \\left\\{ {\\widetilde{x}}^{\\epsilon }\\right\\} \) (not necessarily Markov) that satisfy for any \( {T}^{\\prime },\\delta \) fixed, and any stopping times ...
\[ \n\\mathop{\\limsup }\\limits_{{\\epsilon \\rightarrow 0}}\\epsilon \\log \\mathrm{P}\\left( {\\mathop{\\sup }\\limits_{{t \\in \\left\\lbrack {0,{T}^{\\prime }}\\right\\rbrack }}\\left| {{x}_{t}^{\\epsilon } - {\\widetilde{x}}_{t + {T}_{\\epsilon }}^{\\epsilon }}\\right| > \\delta \\left| {\\;{\\mathcal{F}}_{{T}_{\...
Yes
Lemma 5.7.23 For every \( \rho > 0 \) and every \( c > 0 \), there exists a constant \( T\left( {c,\rho }\right) < \infty \) such that
\[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in G}}{P}_{x}\left( {\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \in \left\lbrack {0, T\left( {c,\rho }\right) }\right\rbrack }}\left| {{x}_{t}^{\epsilon } - x}\right| \geq \rho }\right) < - c. \]
No
\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}}\epsilon \log E\left( \tau \right) = \frac{{\theta }_{cr}^{2}}{2} \]
Proof: Let \( {z}_{t} = {\theta }_{t} - {u}_{t} \) denote the angular tracking error. Then \( {z}_{t} \) satisfies the equation\n\n\[ d{z}_{t} = \left( {m\left( {\theta }_{t}\right) - m\left( {u}_{t}\right) }\right) {dt} - \frac{1}{\epsilon }{z}_{t}{dt} - d{v}_{t} + d{w}_{t},\;{z}_{0} = 0, \]\n\nwhich under the time ch...
Yes
Lemma 5.8.8\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{{t}^{\prime } \geq 0}}\left| {{z}_{{t}^{\prime }} - {\widehat{z}}_{{t}^{\prime }}}\right| \leq {2\epsilon }\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in {\mathbb{R}}^{2}}}\left| {m\left( x\right) }\right| \text{ almost surely }.\]
Proof: Let \( {e}_{{t}^{\prime }} = {z}_{{t}^{\prime }} - {\widehat{z}}_{{t}^{\prime }} \) . Then\n\n\[ {\dot{e}}_{{t}^{\prime }} = \epsilon \left( {m\left( {\theta }_{{t}^{\prime }}\right) - m\left( {u}_{{t}^{\prime }}\right) }\right) - {e}_{{t}^{\prime }}\;,\;{e}_{0} = 0.\]\n\nHence,\n\n\[ {e}_{{t}^{\prime }} = \epsi...
Yes
Theorem 6.1.3 Let Assumption 6.1.2 hold. Then \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) satisfies in \( \mathcal{X} \) (and \( \mathcal{E} \) ) a weak LDP with rate function \( {\Lambda }^{ * } \) . Moreover, for every open, convex subset \( A \subset \mathcal{X} \) , \[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n...
(6.1.4)
No
Corollary 6.1.6 The sequence \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) of the laws of empirical means of \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) - valued i.i.d. random variables satisfies a weak LDP with the convex rate function \( {\Lambda }^{ * } \) . Moreover, if \( 0 \in {\mathcal{D}}_{\Lambda }^{o} \), then \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \)...
Proof: The weak LDP is merely a specialization of Theorem 6.1.3. If \( 0 \in {\mathcal{D}}_{\Lambda }^{o} \), the full LDP follows, since \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \subset {M}_{1}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{d}\right) \) is then exponentially tight. (See the inequality (2.2.33) and the discussion there.)
Yes
Lemma 6.1.11 (Sub-additivity) If \( f : {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0,\infty }\right\rbrack \) is a sub-additive function such that \( f\left( n\right) < \infty \) for all \( n \geq N \) and some \( N < \infty \), then\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{f\left( n\right) }{n} = \...
Proof: Fix \( m \geq N \) and let \( {M}_{m} \triangleq \max \{ f\left( r\right) : m \leq r \leq {2m}\} \) . By assumption, \( {M}_{m} < \infty \) . For each \( n \geq m \geq N \), let \( s = \lfloor n/m\rfloor \geq 1 \) and \( r = n - m\left( {s - 1}\right) \in \{ m,\ldots ,{2m}\} \) . Since \( f \) is sub-additive,\n...
Yes
Lemma 6.1.12 Let part (a) of Assumption 6.1.2 hold true. Then, for every convex \( A \in {\mathcal{B}}_{\mathcal{X}} \), the function \( f\left( n\right) \triangleq - \log {\mu }_{n}\left( A\right) \) is sub-additive.
Proof: Without loss of generality, it may be assumed that \( A \subset \mathcal{E} \) . Now,\n\n\[ \n{\widehat{S}}_{m + n} = \frac{m}{m + n}{\widehat{S}}_{m} + \frac{n}{m + n}{\widehat{S}}_{m + n}^{m}.\n\]\n\nTherefore, \( {\widehat{S}}_{m + n} \) is a convex combination (with deterministic coefficients) of the indepen...
Yes
Corollary 6.2.3 The empirical measures \( {L}_{n}^{\mathbf{Y}} \) satisfy a weak LDP in \( {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) (equipped with the weak topology and \( \mathcal{B} = {\mathcal{B}}^{w} \) ) with the convex rate function
\[ {\Lambda }^{ * }\left( \nu \right) = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\phi \in {C}_{b}\left( \sum \right) }}\{ \langle \phi ,\nu \rangle - \Lambda \left( \phi \right) \} ,\;\nu \in {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) ,\] where for \( \phi \in {C}_{b}\left( \sum \right) \), \[ \Lambda \left( \phi \right) \triangleq \log E\left\lbrack ...
Yes
Lemma 6.2.6 The laws of \( {L}_{n}^{\mathbf{Y}} \) of (6.2.1) are exponentially tight.
Proof: Note that, by Theorem D.7, \( \mu \in {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) is tight, and in particular, there exist compact sets \( {\Gamma }_{\ell } \subset \sum ,\ell = 1,2,\ldots \) such that\n\n\[ \mu \left( {\Gamma }_{\ell }^{c}\right) \leq {e}^{-2{\ell }^{2}}\left( {{e}^{\ell } - 1}\right) . \]\n\n(6.2.7)\n\nThe ...
Yes
Lemma 6.2.13 The identity \( H\left( {\cdot \mid \mu }\right) = {\Lambda }^{ * }\left( \cdot \right) \) holds over \( \mathcal{X} \) . Moreover, the definitions (6.2.11) and (6.2.4) yield the same function over \( {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) .
Proof: Observe that \( \mathcal{X} \) is, by Theorem B.8, a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space whose (topological) dual \( {\mathcal{X}}^{ * } \) is \( B\left( \sum \right) \) . By combining Lemma 6.2.12 with the duality lemma (Lemma 4.5.8) (for \( f = H\left( {\cdot \mid \mu }\right) \) ), the identity ...
Yes
Lemma 6.2.16 Suppose \( \gamma \) is a convex, good rate function on \( \mathbb{R} \) such that \( \gamma \left( x\right) /\left| x\right| \rightarrow \infty \) for \( \left| x\right| \rightarrow \infty \) . Then, \[ {I}_{\gamma }\left( \nu \right) \overset{\bigtriangleup }{ = }\left\{ \begin{matrix} {\int }_{\sum }\ga...
Proof: Since \( \gamma \left( \cdot \right) \geq 0 \), also \( {I}_{\gamma }\left( \cdot \right) \geq 0 \) . Fix an \( \alpha < \infty \) and consider the set \[ {\Psi }_{I}\left( \alpha \right) \triangleq \left\{ {f \in {L}_{1}\left( \mu \right) : {\int }_{\sum }\gamma \left( f\right) {d\mu } \leq \alpha }\right\} . \...
Yes
Lemma 6.3.1 Let \( A \in {\mathcal{B}}_{M\left( \sum \right) } \) be convex. Define\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{\mu }}_{n}\left( A\right) \triangleq \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{\sigma \in \sum }}{\mu }_{n,\sigma }\left( A\right)\n\]\n\nThen \( {\widetilde{\mu }}_{n}\left( A\right) \) is super multiplicative, i.e.,\n\n\[ \n{\wideti...
Proof: Note that\n\n\[ \n{\mu }_{n + m,\sigma }\left( A\right) = {P}_{\sigma }\left( {{L}_{n + m}^{\mathbf{Y}} \in A}\right) \geq {P}_{\sigma }\left( {{L}_{n}^{\mathbf{Y}} \in A,{L}_{n + m}^{\mathbf{Y}, n} \in A}\right)\n\]\n\n\[ \n= {\int }_{{\sum }^{n}}{1}_{\left\{ {L}_{n}^{\mathbf{Y}} \in A\right\} }{\mu }_{m,{Y}_{n...
Yes
Lemma 6.3.3 For any \( {A}_{\delta } \in \Theta \), either\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{\mu }}_{n}\left( {A}_{\delta /2}\right) = 0,\;\forall n \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + },\n\]\n\nor\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{\mu }}_{n}\left( {A}_{\delta }\right) > 0,\;\forall n \geq {n}_{0}\left( {A}_{\delta }\right) .\n\]
Proof: Let \( {A}_{\delta } = { \cap }_{i = 1}^{N}{U}_{{f}_{i},{x}_{i},{\delta }_{i}} \) . Assume that \( {\widetilde{\mu }}_{m}\left( {A}_{\delta /2}\right) > 0 \) for some \( m \) . For any \( n \geq m \), let \( {q}_{n} = \left\lbrack {n/m}\right\rbrack ,{r}_{n} = n - {q}_{n}m \) . Then\n\n\[ \n{\mu }_{n,\sigma }\le...
Yes
Lemma 6.3.5 Assume (U). For any \( {A}_{\delta } \in \Theta \), there exists an \( {n}_{0}\left( {A}_{\delta }\right) \) such that for all \( n > {n}_{0}\left( {A}_{\delta }\right) \), \[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\sigma \in \sum }}{\mu }_{n,\sigma }\left( {A}_{\delta /2}\right) \leq M{\widetilde{\mu }}_{n}\left( {A}_{\d...
Proof: Let \( \ell \) be as in (U), and \( n = {q}_{n}\ell + {r}_{n} \) where \( 0 \leq {r}_{n} \leq \ell - 1 \) . Then with \( {A}_{\delta } = { \cap }_{i = 1}^{{N}^{\prime }}{U}_{{f}_{i},{x}_{i},{\delta }_{i}} \), \[ {\mu }_{n,\sigma }\left( {A}_{\delta /2}\right) = {P}_{\sigma }\left( {\frac{1}{n}\mathop{\sum }\limi...
Yes
Theorem 6.3.8 Assume (U). Then the following limits exist:\n\n\[ \Lambda \left( f\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n}\log {E}_{\sigma }\left( {\exp \left( {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}f\left( {Y}_{i}\right) }\right) }\right) \]\n\nwhere \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \sum \right) \). More...
Proof: Note that, since \( f \) is bounded,\n\n\[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n}\log {E}_{\sigma }\left( {\exp \left( {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}f\left( {Y}_{i}\right) }\right) }\right) \leq \parallel f\parallel < \infty . \]\n\nThe reader will prove the exponential tightness of ...
No
Theorem 6.4.4 Let Assumption 6.4.1 hold. Then \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) satisfies the LDP in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) with the good convex rate function \( {\Lambda }^{ * }\left( \cdot \right) \), which is the Fenchel-Legendre transform of \[ \Lambda \left( \lambda \right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \...
Proof: Note that \( {\widehat{S}}_{n} \in K \) for all \( n \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \), and hence the sequence \( \left\{ {\mu }_{n}\right\} \) is exponentially tight. Consequently, when combined with Lemma 4.4.8 and Theorem 4.4.10, the following lemma, whose proof is deferred, implies that \( {\mu }_{n} \) satisfies th...
No
Lemma 6.4.7 Let assumption 6.4.1 hold. Suppose \( \delta > 0 \) and \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2} \) are such that for \( i = 1,2 \) , \[ \mathop{\liminf }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n}\log {\mu }_{n}\left( {B}_{{x}_{i},\delta /2}\right) > - \infty . \] Then for all \( n \) large enough, \[ {\mu }_{2n}\left( {B}_{\l...
Fix \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2} \) such that \( I\left( {x}_{1}\right) < \infty \) and \( I\left( {x}_{2}\right) < \infty \) . Then due to (6.4.9), Lemma 6.4.7 holds for \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2} \) and all \( \delta > 0 \) . Note that \( y \in {B}_{\left( {{x}_{1} + {x}_{2}}\right) /2,\delta } \) implies the inclusion \( {B}_{\left( ...
Yes
Lemma 6.4.10 (Approximate sub-additivity) Assume \( f : {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is such that for all \( n, m \geq 1 \), \[ f\left( {n + m}\right) \leq f\left( n\right) + f\left( m\right) + \epsilon \left( {n + m}\right) ,\] where for some \( \delta > 0 \), \[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{n \rightarro...
Proof of Lemma 6.4.10: Fix \( s \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + }, s \geq 2 \). Observe that for all \( m \geq 1 \), \( 1 \leq r \leq \left( {s - 1}\right) \[ f\left( {{ms} + r}\right) \leq f\left( {ms}\right) + f\left( r\right) + \epsilon \left( {{ms} + r}\right) . \] Hence, \[ \frac{f\left( {{ms} + r}\right) }{{ms} + r} \leq \f...
Yes
Theorem 6.4.14 (a) Let \( {\left\{ {g}_{j}\right\} }_{j = 1}^{d} \in B\left( \sum \right) \) . Define the \( {\mathbb{R}}^{d} \) -valued stationary process \( {X}_{1},\ldots ,{X}_{n},\ldots \) by \( {X}_{i} = \left( {{g}_{1}\left( {Y}_{i}\right) ,\ldots ,{g}_{d}\left( {Y}_{i}\right) }\right) \) . Suppose that, for any ...
Proof: The proof relies on part (b) of Corollary 4.6.11. Indeed, the triplet \( \left( {B{\left( \sum \right) }^{\prime },{\mathcal{B}}^{cy},{\mu }_{n}}\right) \) satisfies Assumption 4.6.8 with \( \mathcal{W} = B\left( \sum \right) \) . Moreover, by Theorem 6.4.4, for any \( {g}_{1},\ldots ,{g}_{d} \in B\left( \sum \r...
Yes
Lemma 6.4.18 Let \( {Y}_{1},\ldots ,{Y}_{n},\ldots \) be the stationary process defined before. (a) Assume that (H-1) holds and \( \Lambda \left( f\right) \) exists for all \( f \in B\left( \sum \right) \) . Then the inequality (6.4.16) holds true.
Proof: (a) Since \( \Lambda \left( f\right) \) exists, it is enough to consider limits along the sequence \( n = m\ell \) . By Jensen’s inequality,\n\n\[ \n{E}_{P}\left\lbrack {e}^{\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{{m\ell }}f\left( {Y}_{i}\right) }\right\rbrack = {E}_{P}\left\lbrack {e}^{{\ell }^{-1}\mathop{\sum }\limit...
Yes
Theorem 6.5.2 Let \( {P}_{1} \) be an invariant measure for \( \pi \left( {\cdot , \cdot }\right) \) . Then for all \( \nu \in {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \)\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{f \in B\left( \sum \right) }}\{ \langle \nu, f\rangle - \Lambda \left( f\right) \}\]\n\n\[ = \left\{ \begin{matrix} \mathop{\sup }\li...
Proof: (a) Suppose that \( {d\nu }/d{P}_{1} \) does not exist, i.e., there exists a set \( A \in {\mathcal{B}}_{\sum } \) such that \( {P}_{1}\left( A\right) = 0 \) while \( \nu \left( A\right) > 0 \) . For any \( \alpha > 0 \), the function \( \alpha {1}_{A} \) belongs to \( B\left( \sum \right) \), and by the union o...
Yes
Theorem 6.5.4 Assume that (U) of Section 6.3 holds.\n\nThen, for all \( \nu \in {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \),\n\n\[ {I}^{U}\left( \nu \right) = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{u \in {C}_{b}\left( \sum \right), u \geq 1}}\left\{ {-{\int }_{\sum }\log \left( \frac{\pi u}{u}\right) {d\nu }}\right\} .\n\]
Proof: Recall that Assumption (U) implies that for any \( \mu \in {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) and any \( \sigma \in \sum \),\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n}\log {E}_{\sigma }\left\lbrack {e}^{\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}f\left( {Y}_{i}\right) }\right\rbrack = \mathop{\lim }\lim...
No
Corollary 6.5.10 (a) Assume \( \pi \) satisfies Assumption (U) of Section 6.3. Then \( {L}_{n, k}^{\mathbf{Y}} \) satisfies (in the weak topology of \( {M}_{1}\left( {\sum }^{k}\right) \) ) the LDP with the good rate function
\[ {I}_{k}^{U}\left( \nu \right) \triangleq \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{u \in B\left( {\sum }^{k}\right), u \geq 1}}\left\{ {-{\int }_{{\sum }^{k}}\log \left( \frac{{\pi }_{k}u}{u}\right) {d\nu }}\right\} . \]
Yes
Lemma 6.5.16 (Pinsker) Let \( \sum \) be Polish and \( \nu ,\mu \in {M}_{1}\left( {\sum }^{{\mathbb{Z}}_{1}}\right) \) . Then\n\n\[ H\left( {{\bar{p}}_{k}\nu \mid {\bar{p}}_{k}\mu }\right) \nearrow H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) \text{ as }k \rightarrow \infty . \]
Proof of Lemma 6.5.16: Recall that\n\n\[ H\left( {{\bar{p}}_{k}\nu \mid {\bar{p}}_{k}\mu }\right) = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\phi \in {C}_{b}\left( {\sum }^{k}\right) }}\left\{ {{\int }_{{\sum }^{k}}{\phi d}{\bar{p}}_{k}\nu - \log \left( {{\int }_{{\sum }^{k}}{e}^{\phi }d{\bar{p}}_{k}\mu }\right) }\right\} ,\]\n\nwherea...
Yes
Theorem 6.6.1 (Dupuis-Ellis) Suppose \( I\left( \cdot \right) \) is a good rate function on a Polish space \( \mathcal{X} \) such that for a family of probability measures \( \left\{ {\widetilde{\mu }}_{\epsilon }\right\} \) on \( \mathcal{X} \) and any \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) , \[ {\Lambda }_{f} \...
Proof: The duality in Lemma 6.2.13 (see in particular (6.2.14)) implies that for all \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) , \[ \log {\int }_{\mathcal{X}}{e}^{f\left( x\right) /\epsilon }{\widetilde{\mu }}_{\epsilon }\left( {dx}\right) = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\widetilde{\nu } \in {M}_{1}\left( \mathcal{X}\righ...
Yes
Lemma 6.6.3 For any \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) and \( {\mu }^{\left( n\right) } \in {M}_{1}\left( {\sum }^{n}\right) \) , \[ {\Lambda }_{f, n}\overset{\bigtriangleup }{ \triangleq }\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\widetilde{\nu } \in {M}_{1}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) }}\left\{ {\langle f,\widetilde{\nu }\rangl...
Proof: Fix \( f \in {C}_{b}\left( \mathcal{X}\right), n \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \) and \( {\mu }^{\left( n\right) } \in {M}_{1}\left( {\sum }^{n}\right) \) . For computing \( {\Lambda }_{f, n} \) it suffices to consider \( \widetilde{\nu } = {\widetilde{\nu }}_{n} \) such that \( {\rho }_{n} = d{\widetilde{\nu }}_{n}/d{...
Yes
Theorem 7.1.3 Let Assumption 7.1.2 hold. For any \( \delta > 0 \) and any \( \eta \geq 0 \) , let \( {\mathcal{S}}_{\delta }^{ * } \) denote the test\n\n\[ \n{\mathcal{S}}_{\delta }^{ * }\left( z\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 0 & \text{ if }{J}_{\delta }\left( z\right) < \eta \\ 1 & \text{ otherwise,} \end{array}\...
The proof is based on the following lemmas:
Yes
Lemma 7.1.8 For any test satisfying (7.1.5), and all \( n > {n}_{0}\left( \delta \right) \) , \n\n\[ \n{\mathcal{S}}_{0}^{*,\delta } \subseteq {\mathcal{S}}_{0}^{n,\delta } \n\]
Proof of Lemma 7.1.8: Assume that \( \left\{ {\mathcal{S}}^{n}\right\} \) is a test for which (7.1.9) does not hold. Then for some infinite subsequence \( \left\{ {n}_{m}\right\} \), there exist \( {z}_{m} \in {\mathcal{S}}_{0}^{*,\delta } \) such that \( {z}_{m} \in {\mathcal{S}}_{1}^{{n}_{m},\delta } \) . Therefore, ...
Yes
Theorem 7.1.11 Let Assumption 7.1.10 hold.\n\n(a) For all \( \theta \in \Theta \) ,\n\n\[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n}\log {\mu }_{\theta, n}\left( {\mathcal{S}}_{1}^{*,\delta }\right) \leq - \eta \]\n\n(7.1.12)
(a) By a repeat of the proof of Lemma 7.1.7, it is concluded that for all \( \delta > 0 \) and all \( \theta \in \Theta \) ,\n\n\[ {c}_{\theta }^{\delta } \triangleq \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{z \in \overline{{\mathcal{S}}_{1}^{*,\delta }}}}{I}_{\theta }\left( z\right) \geq \eta \]\n\nTherefore, (7.1.12) follows by the la...
Yes
Theorem 7.1.19 If \( \bar{A} \) is a compact subset of \( {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \), then (7.1.14) holds, and the test \( {\mathcal{S}}^{ * } \) is optimal.
Proof: Assume that the set of measures \( \bar{A} \) is compact. Then by Prohorov’s theorem (Theorem D.9), for each \( \delta > 0 \) there exists a compact set \( {K}_{\delta } \subseteq \) \( \sum \) such that \( \mu \left( {K}_{\delta }^{c}\right) < \delta \) for all \( \mu \in A \) . Fix \( \eta < \infty \) and defi...
Yes
Theorem 7.2.3 Let \( {X}_{i} \) be real-valued i.i.d. random variables with \( {\Lambda }_{X}\left( \lambda \right) = \) \( \log E\left\lbrack {e}^{\lambda {X}_{1}}\right\rbrack \) finite everywhere and \( {y}_{i} \in \sum \) non-random such that \( {L}_{m}^{\mathbf{y}} \rightarrow \mu \) weakly in \( {M}_{1}\left( \su...
Proof: Note that \( {\Lambda }_{X}^{ * }\left( \cdot \right) \) is a convex good rate function and by Lemma 2.2.20, \( {\Lambda }_{X}^{ * }\left( x\right) /\left| x\right| \rightarrow \infty \) as \( \left| x\right| \rightarrow \infty \) . Hence, by Lemma 6.2.16, \( {I}_{X}\left( \cdot \right) \) is a convex, good rate...
Yes
Theorem 7.3.3 Assume (A-1). Then \( \mathcal{M} \triangleq \left\{ {\nu \in {F}_{0} : H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) = {I}_{F}}\right\} \) is a non-empty, compact set. Further, for any \( \Gamma \in {\mathcal{B}}^{cy} \) with \( \mathcal{M} \subset {\Gamma }^{o} \), \[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\delta \rightarrow 0}}\...
Proof: Note that \( {A}_{0} \subseteq {F}_{0} \), so \( {\nu }_{ * } \in \mathcal{M} \) by Assumption (A-1). Moreover, \( {I}_{F} < \infty \) implies that \( \mathcal{M} \) being the intersection of the closed set \( {F}_{0} \) and the compact set \( \left\{ {\nu : H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) \leq {I}_{F}}\right\} \...
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Lemma 7.3.4 Assume (A-1). Then, for all \( \delta > 0 \) ,\n\n\[ \mathop{\liminf }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{n}\log {Q}_{n}\left( {A}_{\delta }\right) \geq - {I}_{F} \]
Proof of Lemma 7.3.4: Since \( {A}_{\delta } \) in general may contain no neighborhood of points from \( \mathcal{M} \), the lower bound of Sanov’s theorem cannot be used directly. Instead, a direct computation of the lower bound via the change of measure argument will be used in conjunction with (7.3.2).\n\nLet \( {\n...
Yes
Corollary 7.3.5 If \( \mathcal{M} = \left\{ {\nu }_{ * }\right\} \) then \( {\mu }_{{\mathbf{Y}}^{k} \mid {A}_{\delta }}^{n} \rightarrow {\left( {\nu }_{ * }\right) }^{k} \) weakly in \( {M}_{1}\left( {\sum }^{k}\right) \) for \( n \rightarrow \infty \) followed by \( \delta \rightarrow 0 \) .
Proof: Assume \( \mathcal{M} = \left\{ {\nu }_{ * }\right\} \) and fix \( {\phi }_{j} \in {C}_{b}\left( \sum \right), j = 1,\ldots, k \) . By the invariance of \( {\mu }_{{\mathbf{Y}}^{n} \mid {A}_{\delta }}^{n} \) with respect to permutations of \( \left\{ {{Y}_{1},\ldots ,{Y}_{n}}\right\} \) ,\n\n\[ \left\langle {\ma...
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Theorem 7.3.8 Let \( U,\mu \) and \( {\beta }^{ * } \) be as in the preceding lemma. If either \( U \) is bounded or \( {\beta }^{ * } \geq 0 \), then Theorem 7.3.3 applies, with \( \mathcal{M} \) consisting of a unique Gibbs measure \( {\gamma }_{{\beta }^{ * }} \) .
Proof: Note that by the monotone convergence theorem, \( \langle U, \cdot \rangle = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{n}\langle U \land \) \( n, \cdot \rangle \) . Since \( U \land n \in B\left( \sum \right) \), it follows that \( \Phi \left( \cdot \right) = \langle U, \cdot \rangle - 1 \) is a \( \tau \) -lower semicontinuous fu...
Yes
Lemma 7.3.12 The functional \( \nu \mapsto \langle {U\nu },\nu \rangle \) is continuous with respect to the \( \tau \) -topology on \( {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) .
Proof: Clearly, it suffices to prove the continuity of the functional \( \nu \mapsto \) \( \langle {U\nu },\nu \rangle \) with respect to the weak topology on \( {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) . For \( U\left( {x, y}\right) = \) \( f\left( x\right) g\left( y\right) \) with \( f, g \in {C}_{b}\left( \sum \right) \), the ...
Yes
Theorem 7.3.16 Assume (A-2)-(A-4). Then Theorem 7.3.3 applies, with \( \mathcal{M} \) consisting of a unique Gibbs measure \( {\gamma }_{{\beta }^{ * }} \), where \( {\beta }^{ * } \) is as defined in (7.3.15).
Proof: Since \( \Phi \left( \cdot \right) \) is a continuous functional (see Lemma 7.3.12), \( {F}_{\delta } = {A}_{\delta } \) may be taken here, yielding \( {F}_{0} = {A}_{0} = \{ \nu : \langle {U\nu },\nu \rangle = 1\} \) . Recall that \( \mu \) and \( {\gamma }_{{\beta }^{ * }} \) are equivalent with a globally bou...
Yes
Lemma 7.3.25 For \( \mathcal{X} \) a Polish space, any \( P \in {M}_{1}\left( {\mathcal{X}}^{m}\right), m \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{ + } \) and any \( Q \in {M}_{1}\left( \mathcal{X}\right) \) , \[ H\left( {P \mid {Q}^{m}}\right) = H\left( {P \mid {P}_{1} \times \cdots \times {P}_{m}}\right) + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{...
Proof: Suppose \( {P}_{i}\left( B\right) > Q\left( B\right) = 0 \) for some \( B \subset \mathcal{X} \) and \( i = 1,\ldots, m \) . Then, \( P\left( \widetilde{B}\right) > {Q}^{m}\left( \widetilde{B}\right) = 0 \) for \( \widetilde{B} = {\mathcal{X}}^{i - 1} \times B \times {\mathcal{X}}^{m - i} \) in which case both s...
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Lemma 7.3.27 (Csiszàr) Suppose that \( H\left( {{\nu }_{0} \mid \mu }\right) = \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{\nu \in A}}H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) \) for a convex set \( A \subset {M}_{1}\left( \sum \right) \) and some \( {\nu }_{0} \in A \) . Then, for any \( \nu \in A \) , \[ H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) \geq H\left(...
Proof: Fix \( \nu \triangleq {\nu }_{1} \in A \) and let \( {\nu }_{\alpha } = {\alpha \nu } + \left( {1 - \alpha }\right) {\nu }_{0} \in A \) for \( \alpha \in \lbrack 0,1) \) . There is nothing to prove unless \( H\left( {{\nu }_{0} \mid \mu }\right) \leq H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) < \infty \), in which case \( {...
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Corollary 7.3.34 Let \( A = \left\{ {\nu \in {M}_{1}\left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack : \langle U,\nu \rangle \leq 1}\right\} \) for a bounded non-negative Borel function \( U\left( \cdot \right) \), such that \( \mu \circ {U}^{-1} \) is a non-lattice law, \( {\int }_{0}^{1}U\left( x\right) {d\mu }\left( x\right) > 1 \) ...
Proof: It is shown in the course of proving Theorem 7.3.8 that \( {\nu }_{ * } = {\gamma }_{{\beta }^{ * }} \) is such that \( \left\langle {U,{\nu }_{ * }}\right\rangle = 1 \) and\n\n\[ H\left( {{\nu }_{ * } \mid \mu }\right) = \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{\nu \in A}}H\left( {\nu \mid \mu }\right) < \infty . \]\n\nNote tha...
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Corollary 1.2 For any \( j, l \geq 2 \) ,\n\n\[ P\left( {\partial {\Lambda }_{{2}^{j}} \leftrightarrow \partial {\Lambda }_{{2}^{j + l}}}\right) \leq {\left( 1 - {a}_{4}^{6}\right) }^{l}. \]
This corollary follows immediately from the previous lemma because of the independence of the realization of percolation in each of the disjoint annuli \( {A}_{j},{A}_{j + 1},\ldots ,{A}_{j + l - 1} \) and the fact that if \( \partial {\Lambda }_{{2}^{j}} \leftrightarrow \partial {\Lambda }_{{2}^{j + l}} \) then none o...
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Corollary 1.3 There exist constants \( K \) and \( c \) such that for all \( n \geq 2 \) and \( m \geq 1 \), the probability that there exist \( K \) disjoint open paths joining \( \partial {\Lambda }_{n} \) to \( \partial {\Lambda }_{mn} \) is smaller than \( c \times {m}^{-3} \) .
This follows readily from our estimates and the fact (called the Van den Berg-Kesten (BK) inequality, see [15]) that the probability that there exist \( K \) disjoint open paths joining \( \partial {\Lambda }_{n} \) to \( \partial {\Lambda }_{nm} \) is bounded from above by\n\n\[ P{\left( \partial {\Lambda }_{n} \leftr...
Yes
Theorem 3.1 The law of \( {\gamma }^{\delta } \) converges to the law of chordal SLE(6) from \( x \) to \( c \) in the domain \( D \) .
When one states a convergence in law, one has to be precise about the topology. Here, we use the distance between two continuous paths \( \gamma \) and \( {\gamma }^{\prime } \) (with endpoints) defined by\n\n\[ \mathop{\inf }\limits_{\varphi }\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{u \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack }}\left| {\gam...
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Lemma 3.1 For each fixed \( z \in D \) with rational coordinates, \( {\sigma }_{z}^{{\delta }_{n}} \rightarrow {\sigma }_{z} \) almost surely as \( n \rightarrow \infty \) .
Note that the convergence of \( {\gamma }^{{\delta }_{n}} \) to \( \gamma \) implies immediately that almost surely, \[ {\sigma }_{z} \geq \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}{\sigma }_{z}^{{\delta }_{n}} \] What one has to prove here is that when \( {\gamma }^{{\delta }_{n}} \) comes close to disconnect ...
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Lemma 3.2 For all \( u < {u}^{\prime } \), there almost surely exists \( v \in \left( {u,{u}^{\prime }}\right) \) such that \( {\gamma }_{v} \notin \gamma \left\lbrack {0, u}\right\rbrack \cap \partial D \) .
Proof. Define a countable dense set of points \( \left( {x}_{j}\right) \) on the union of the boundaries of the connected components of the complement of \( \gamma \left\lbrack {0, u}\right\rbrack \) . Because of the Russo-Seymour-Welsh estimates, almost surely, none of the points \( {x}_{j} \) are visited by \( \gamma...
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Lemma 3.3 For all \( t,{X}_{t} = P\left( {\mathcal{A} \mid \gamma \left\lbrack {0, t}\right\rbrack }\right) \) .
Proof. Let us consider any continuous bounded function \( f \) on the space of curves. Using three times dominated convergence, and our previously collected results, we obtain that\n\n\[ E\left( {{1}_{\mathcal{A}}f\left( {\gamma \left\lbrack {0, t}\right\rbrack }\right) }\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow ...
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Proposition 4.1 Consider a chordal SLE(6) process \( {\gamma }^{1} \) from 1 to -1 in the unit disc \( \mathbb{U} \), and a radial SLE(6) process \( {\gamma }^{2} \) from 1 to 0 in \( \mathbb{U} \) . Define\n\n\[ \n{T}^{l} = \inf \left\{ {t > 0 : {\gamma }^{l}\left\lbrack {0, t}\right\rbrack \text{ disconnect }0\text{ ...
Outline of the proof of Proposition 4.1. Consider the chordal \( \mathrm{{SLE}}\left( 6\right) \) \( {\gamma }^{1} \) and define, for each \( t \leq {T}^{1} \), the conformal map \( {f}_{t} \) from \( {U}_{t} \) onto \( \mathbb{U} \) such that \( {f}_{t}\left( 0\right) = 0 \) and \( {f}_{t}\left( {\gamma }_{t}^{1}\righ...
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Theorem 4.1 When the mesh of the lattice goes to zero, then the law of the radial discrete exploration process converges to that of radial SLE(6).
Outline of the proof. Basically, one can note that the fact that up to the first disconnection time \( {T}_{1} \), the law of the discrete exploration process converges to that of the radial \( \operatorname{SLE}\left( 6\right) \) up to its first disconnection time, is a combination of the fact that chordal exploration...
No
Proposition 4.3 There exist two constants \( {c}_{1} \) and \( {c}_{2} \) such that for all \( t \geq 2 \) ,\n\n\[ \n{c}_{1}{e}^{-{5t}/{48}} \leq {J}_{t} \leq {c}_{2}{e}^{-{5t}/{48}}. \n\]
Note that at time \( t \), the boundary of \( {U}_{t} \) can be decomposed into three parts. The arc on \( \partial \mathbb{U} \) that the path has not yet disconnected, an arc \( {\partial }_{t}^{1} \) that corresponds to \
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Proposition 4.4 There is a constant \( c > 0 \) such that for all \( t \geq 1 \), for all \( x \in \left( {0,{2\pi }}\right) \)\n\n\[{e}^{-{\lambda t}}{\left( \sin \left( x/2\right) \right) }^{q} \leq f\left( {x, t}\right) \leq c{e}^{-{\lambda t}}{\left( \sin \left( x/2\right) \right) }^{q}\]
Proof. We can assume that \( b > 0 \) since the case \( b = 0 \) was treated in the previous section. Let \( {Y}_{t}^{x} \) be as before and define for all \( t < {\tau }^{x} \)\n\n\[{\Phi }_{t}^{x} \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left| {{g}_{t}^{\prime }\left( {\exp \left( {ix}\right) }\right) }\right| .\n\]\nOn \( t \geq {\tau ...
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Lemma 5.1 There exists a constant \( c = c\left( \delta \right) > 0 \) such that for all large enough \( {r}_{1} < {r}_{2}/4 < {r}_{3}/{32} \)\n\n\[{\pi }_{4}^{\delta }\left( {{r}_{1},{r}_{3}}\right) \geq c\left( \delta \right) {\pi }_{4}^{\delta }\left( {{r}_{1},{r}_{2}}\right) {\pi }_{4}^{\delta }\left( {2{r}_{2},{r}...
The proof is again an application of the \
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Lemma 5.2 If one chooses \( \delta \) small enough, then for all large enough \( R \), and for all large enough \( n \geq N\left( {R,\delta }\right) \), \[ {\pi }_{4}^{\delta }\left( {n,{nR}}\right) \geq \frac{1}{2}{\widehat{\pi }}_{4}\left( {n,{nR}}\right) \]
The proof is based on the one hand on the fact that that for \( {r}_{1} < {r}_{2}/8 \), \[ {\widehat{\pi }}_{4}\left( {{r}_{1},{r}_{2}}\right) - {\pi }_{4}^{\delta }\left( {{r}_{1},{r}_{2}}\right) \leq {\widehat{\pi }}_{4}\left( {2{r}_{1},{r}_{2}/2}\right) \times a\left( \delta \right) , \] where the probability \( a\l...
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