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Classical large deviations theorems on complete Riemannian manifolds

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Abstract

We generalize classical large deviations theorems to the setting of complete Riemannian manifolds. We prove the analogue of Mogulskii's theorem for geodesic random walks via a general approach using visocity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. As a corollary, we also obtain the analogue of Cram\'er's theorem. The approach also provides a new proof of Schilder's theorem. Additionally, we provide a proof of Schilder's theorem by using an embedding into Euclidean space, together with Freidlin-Wentzell theory.

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@article{arxiv.1802.07666,
  title  = {Classical large deviations theorems on complete Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Richard C. Kraaij and Frank Redig and Rik Versendaal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07666},
  year   = {2020}
}
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