The approach introduced in Janžura [Janzura 1997] is further developed and the asymptotic Rényi distances are studied mostly from the point of their monotonicity properties. The results are applied to the problems of statistical inference.
In his 2003 paper, Varadhan proves the averaged large deviation principle for the mean velocity of a particle taking a nearest-neighbor random walk in a uniformly elliptic i.i.d. environment on ℤd with d≥1, and gives a variational formula for the corresponding rate function Ia. Under Sznitman’s transience condition (T), we show that Ia is strictly convex and analytic on a non-empty open set , and that the true velocity of the particle is an element (resp. in the boundary) of when the walk is non-nestling...