For an arbitrary negative Schwarzian unimodal map with non-flat critical point, we establish the level-2 Large Deviation Principle (LDP) for empirical distributions. We also give an example of a multimodal map for which the level-2 LDP does not hold.
Given Holder continuous functions $f$ and $psi$ on a sub-shift of finite type $Sigma_A^{+}$ such that $psi$ is not cohomologous to a constant, the classical large deviation principle holds (cite{OP}, cite{Kif}, cite{Y}) with a rate function $I_psigeq
0$ such that $I_psi (p) = 0$ iff $p = int psi , d mu$, where $mu = mu_f$ is the equilibrium state of $f$. In this paper we derive a uniform estimate from below for $I_psi$ for $p$ outside an interval containing $tilde{psi} = int psi , dmu$, which depends only on the sub-shift, the function $f$, the norm $|psi|_infty$, the Holder constant of $psi$ and the integral $tilde{psi}$. Similar results can be derived in the same way e.g. for Axiom A diffeomorphisms on basic sets.
We give an exponential upper bound on the probabilitywith which the denominator of the $n$th convergent in the regular continued fraction expansion stays away from the mean $frac{npi^2}{12log2}$. The exponential rate is best possible, given by an ana
lytic function related to the dimension spectrum of Lyapunov exponents for the Gauss transformation.
For hyperbolic flows $varphi_t$ we examine the Gibbs measure of points $w$ for which $$int_0^T G(varphi_t w) dt - a T in (- e^{-epsilon n}, e^{- epsilon n})$$ as $n to infty$ and $T geq n$, provided $epsilon > 0$ is sufficiently small. This is simila
r to local central limit theorems. The fact that the interval $(- e^{-epsilon n}, e^{- epsilon n})$ is exponentially shrinking as $n to infty$ leads to several difficulties. Under some geometric assumptions we establish a sharp large deviation result with leading term $C(a) epsilon_n e^{gamma(a) T}$ and rate function $gamma(a) leq 0.$ The proof is based on the spectral estimates for the iterations of the Ruelle operators with two complex parameters and on a new Tauberian theorem for sequence of functions $g_n(t)$ having an asymptotic as $ n to infty$ and $t geq n.$
Let (X,T) be a dynamical system, where X is a compact metric space and T a continuous onto map. For weak Gibbs measures we prove large deviations estimates.
A classic approach in dynamical systems is to use particular geometric structures to deduce statistical properties, for example the existence of invariant measures with stochastic-like behaviour such as large deviations or decay of correlations. Such
geometric structures are generally highly non-trivial and thus a natural question is the extent to which this approach can be applied. In this paper we show that in many cases stochastic-like behaviour itself implies that the system has certain non-trivial geometric properties, which are therefore necessary as well as sufficient conditions for the occurrence of the statistical properties under consideration. As a by product of our techniques we also obtain some new results on large deviations for certain classes of systems which include Viana maps and multidimensional piecewise expanding maps.