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What does a large deviation look like?

Statistical Mechanics 2012-12-11 v3

Abstract

Large deviation theory quantifies the occurence of events that deviate from the average behavior of a system. Such events arise from non-typical trajectories of the dynamics. In this note we derive the time evolution of these rare trajectories.

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@article{arxiv.1201.1232,
  title  = {What does a large deviation look like?},
  author = {David Andrieux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1232},
  year   = {2012}
}

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