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A Course on Large Deviations with an Introduction to Gibbs Measures.

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C<strong>on</strong>tents ix<br />

§12.1. Refinement of Cramér’s theorem 133<br />

§12.2. Moderate deviati<strong>on</strong>s 136<br />

Chapter 13. <strong>Large</strong> deviati<strong>on</strong>s for Markov chains 141<br />

§13.1. Restricting entropies <strong>on</strong> product spaces 141<br />

§13.2. <strong>Large</strong> deviati<strong>on</strong>s 144<br />

Chapter 14. C<strong>on</strong>vexity criteri<strong>on</strong> for large deviati<strong>on</strong>s 145<br />

Chapter 15. N<strong>on</strong>stati<strong>on</strong>ary independent variables 153<br />

§15.1. Generalizati<strong>on</strong> of relative entropy <strong>an</strong>d S<strong>an</strong>ov’s theorem 153<br />

§15.2. Proof of the large deviati<strong>on</strong> principle 155<br />

Appendixes<br />

Appendix A. Topics from probability 167<br />

§A.1. Weak c<strong>on</strong>vergence of probability measures 167<br />

§A.2. Ergodic theorem 170<br />

§A.3. S<strong>to</strong>chastic ordering 175<br />

Appendix B. Topics from <strong>an</strong>alysis 177<br />

§B.1. Measure-theoretic lemma 177<br />

§B.2. Minimax theorem 178<br />

Appendix C. Inequalities 183<br />

§C.1. Holley’s inequality 183<br />

§C.2. Griffiths’ inequality 185<br />

§C.3. Griffiths-Hurst-Sherm<strong>an</strong> inequality 186<br />

Bibliography 189<br />

Notati<strong>on</strong> index 193<br />

Theorems, principles, <strong>an</strong>d models index 197<br />

Author index 199<br />

General index 201

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