General large deviations principle for stationary reflected Brownian motion in the octant

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Let ZZ be a semimartingale reflected Brownian motion (SRBM) with data (θ,Γ,R)(\theta,\Gamma,R), where RR is a completely-S\mathcal{S} matrix and there is a probability measure Pπ\mathbb{P}_{\pi} under which ZZ is stationary. For a measurable set A⊂R+dA\subset\mathbb{R}^d_+, let AcA^c and AoA^o denote its closure and interior, respectively.

General large deviations principle. For every measurable A⊂R+dA\subset\mathbb{R}^d_+,

lim sup⁡u→∞1ulog⁡Pπ(Z(0)/u∈A)≤−inf⁡v∈AcI(v)\limsup_{u\to\infty}\frac{1}{u}\log\mathbb{P}_{\pi}(Z(0)/u\in A)\leq-\inf_{v\in A^c}I(v)

\nand

lim inf⁡u→∞1ulog⁡Pπ(Z(0)/u∈A)≥−inf⁡v∈AoI(v).\liminf_{u\to\infty}\frac{1}{u}\log\mathbb{P}_{\pi}(Z(0)/u\in A)\geq-\inf_{v\in A^o}I(v).

The principle describes the exponential decay of the stationary distribution's probabilities at large spatial scales; the source notes that it had only been established in some special cases, so its general validity remains open.

References

Primary source

Ziyu Liang and John J. Hasenbein, “Optimal Paths in Large Deviations of Symmetric Reflected Brownian Motion in the Octant”, arXiv:1208.1971 (2013).

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