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Deviation inequalities for centered additive functionals of recurrent Harris processes having general state space

Probability 2010-01-25 v4

Abstract

Let XX be a Harris recurrent strong Markov process in continuous time with general Polish state space E,E, having invariant measure μ.\mu . In this paper we use the regeneration method to derive non asymptotic deviation bounds for Px(0tf(Xs)dst12+η)P_{x} (|\int_0^tf(X_s)ds|\geq t^{\frac12 + \eta} \ge) in the positive recurrent case, for nice functions ff with μ(f)=0\mu (f) =0 (ff must be a charge). We generalize these bounds to the fully null-recurrent case in the moderate deviations regime. We obtain a Gaussian contentration bound for all functions ff which are a charge. The rate of convergence is expressed in terms of the deterministic equivalent of the process. The main ingredient of the proof is Nummelin splitting in continuous time which allows to introduce regeneration times for the process on an enlarged state space.

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@article{arxiv.0903.2408,
  title  = {Deviation inequalities for centered additive functionals of recurrent Harris processes having general state space},
  author = {Dasha Loukianova and Eva Loecherbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2408},
  year   = {2010}
}
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