Uniformly Integrable Operators and Large Deviations for Markov Processes

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 301-376

  Wu, Liming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compact operators; Feynman Kac formula; Girsanov formula; Hypercontractivity; Large deviations; Perron Frobenius theorems; Spectral gap; Uniformly integrable operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000038655     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.1999.3544     Document Type: Article

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