Quantitative concentration inequalities on sample path space for mean field interaction

François Bolley

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (2010)

  • Volume: 14, page 192-209
  • ISSN: 1292-8100

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We consider the approximation of a mean field stochastic process by a large interacting particle system. We derive non-asymptotic large deviation bounds measuring the concentration of the empirical measure of the paths of the particles around the law of the process. The method is based on a coupling argument, strong integrability estimates on the paths in Hölder norm, and a general concentration result for the empirical measure of identically distributed independent paths.

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Bolley, François. "Quantitative concentration inequalities on sample path space for mean field interaction." ESAIM: Probability and Statistics 14 (2010): 192-209. <http://eudml.org/doc/250821>.

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