Quenched large deviations for randomly weighted geodesic random walks
Probability
2026-02-20 v1
Abstract
We consider weighted geodesic random walks in a complete Riemannian manifold . We show that for almost all sequences of weights (with respect to a suitable measure), these weighted geodesic random walks satisfy, when suitably scaled, a large deviation principle with a universal rate function. This extends the results from [3], where this was shown for the real-valued case. It turns out the argument is also valid for general vector spaces. This allows us to use the methodology of [9], in which large deviations for geodesic random walks are obtained from large deviation estimates for associated random walks in tangent spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.17319,
title = {Quenched large deviations for randomly weighted geodesic random walks},
author = {Rik Versendaal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17319},
year = {2026}
}