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20 April 2024
 
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Moderate deviations for the volume of the Wiener sausage
Michiel van den Berg ; Erwin Bolthausen ; Frank den Hollander ;
Date 1 Mar 2001
Journal Ann. of Math. (2) 153 (2001), no. 2, 355-406
Subject Probability | math.PR
AbstractFor a>0,let W^a(t) be the a-neighbourhood of standard Brownian motion in R^d starting at 0 and observed until time t.It is well-known that E|W^a(t)|~kappa_a t (t->infty) for d >= 3,with kappa_a the Newtonian capacity of the ball with radius a. We prove that lim_{t->infty} 1/t^{(d-2)/d}log P(|W^a(t)|<=bt) = -I^{kappa_a}(b) in (-infty,0) for all 0infty.This is markedly different from the optimal strategy for large deviations |W^a(t)|<=f(t) with f(t)=o(t),where W^a(t) is known to fill completely a ball of volume f(t) and nothing outside,so that W^a(t) has no holes and f(t)^{-1/d}W^a(t) is localised in the limit as t->infty.We give a detailed analysis of the rate function I^{kappa_a},in particular,its behaviour near the boundary points of (0,kappa_a).It turns out that I^{kappa_a} has an infinite slope at kappa_a and,remarkably,for d>=5 is nonanalytic at some critical point in (0,kappa_a),above which it follows a pure power law.This crossover is associated with a collapse transition in the optimal strategy.We also derive the analogous moderate deviation result for d=2.In this case E|W^a(t)|~2pi t/log t (t->infty),and we prove that lim_{t->infty} 1/log t log P(|W^a(t)|<=bt/log t) =-I^{2pi}(b)in (-infty,0) for all 0
Source arXiv, math.PR/0103238
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