TY - BOOK AU - S. R. S. Varadhan TI - Large deviations and applications SN - 9780898711899 AV - QA273.67 PY - 1984///] CY - Philadelphia PB - SIAM, N1 - 1. Introduction 2. Large Deviations 3. Cramér's Theorem 4. Multidimensional Version of Cramér's Theorem 5. An Infinite Dimensional Example: Brownian Motion 6. The Ventcel—Freidlin Theory 7. The Exit Problem 8. Empirical Distributions 9. The Large Deviation Problem for Empirical Distributions of Markov Processes 10. Some Properties of Entropy 11. Upper Bounds 12. Lower Bounds 13. Contraction Principle 14. Application to the Problem of the Wiener Sausage 15. The Polaron Problem 16. Bibliographical Remarks ER -