- Varadhan's lemma
In
mathematics , Varadhan's lemma is a result inlarge deviations theory . The result gives information on the asymptotic distribution of a statistic "φ"("Z""ε") of a family ofrandom variable s "Z""ε" as "ε" becomes small in terms of arate function for the variables.tatement of the lemma
Let "X" be a regular topological space; let ("Z""ε")"ε">0 be a family of random variables taking values in "X"; let "μ""ε" be the law (
probability measure ) of "Z""ε". Suppose that ("μ""ε")"ε">0 satisfies the large deviation principle with good rate function "I" : "X" → [0, +∞] . Let "φ" : "X" → R be anycontinuous function . Suppose that either one of the following two conditions holds true: either the tail condition:
where 1("E") denotes the
indicator function of the event "E"; or, for some "γ" > 1, the moment condition:
Then
:
References
* cite book
last= Dembo
first = Amir
coauthors = Zeitouni, Ofer
title = Large deviations techniques and applications
series = Applications of Mathematics (New York) 38
edition = Second edition
publisher = Springer-Verlag
location = New York
year = 1998
pages = xvi+396
isbn = 0-387-98406-2 MathSciNet|id=1619036 (See theorem 4.3.1)
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