Spatializing random measures: Doubly indexed processes and the large deviation principle

Publication Date

1999

Journal or Book Title

ANNALS OF PROBABILITY

Abstract

The main theorem is the large deviation principle for the doubly indexed sequence of random measures

Abstract

Here $\theta$ is a probability measure on a Polish space $\mathscr{X},{D_{r,k}k=1,\ldots,2^r}$ is a dyadic partition of $\mathscr{X}$ (hence the use of $2^r$ summands) satisfying $\theta{D_{r,k}}= 1/2^r$ and $L_{q,1}L_{q,2},\ldotsL_{q,2_r}$ is an independent, identically distributed sequesnce of random probability measures on a Ploish space$ \mathscr{Y}$ such that ${L_{q,k}q\in \mathsbb{N}}$ satisfies the large deviation principle with a convex rate function. A number of related asymptotic results are also derived.

The random measures $W_{ r,q}$ have important applications to the statistical mechanics of turbulence. In a companion paper, the large deviation principle presented here is used to give a rigorous derivation of maximum entropy principles arising in the well-known Miller–Robert theory of two-dimensional turbulence as well as in a modification of that theory recently proposed by Turkington.

Pages

297-324

Volume

27

Issue

1

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