Compactness and large deviations

Compactness and large deviations

Probability Seminar
Oct 19, 2016, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Chiranjib Mukherjee, Courant Institute, New York University
In a reasonable topological space, large deviation estimates essentially deal with probabilities of events that are asymptotically (exponentially) small, and in a certain sense, quantify the rate of these decaying probabilities. In such estimates, upper bounds for such small probabilities often require compactness of the ambient space, which is often absent in problems arising in statistical...