2017/11/15 by Igor Honoré, Honoré, I
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods #Probability (math.PR) #Stochastic processes and financial applications #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.05620
openalex publication_date 2017/11/15 · openalex created_date 2017/12/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
For an ergodic Brownian diffusion with invariant measure ν, we consider a sequence of empirical distributions (νn) n≥1 associated with an approximation scheme with decreasing time step (γn) n≥1 along an adapted regular enough class of test functions f such that f --ν(f) is a coboundary of the infinitesimal generator A. Denote by σ the diffusion coefficient and Φ the solution of the Poisson equation AΦ = f -- ν(f). When the square norm of |σ * Φ| 2 lies in the same coboundary class as f , we establish sharp non-asymptotic concentration bounds for suitable normalizations of νn(f) -- ν(f). Our bounds are optimal in the sense that they match the asymptotic limit obtained by Lamberton and Pagès in [LP02], for a certain large deviation regime. In particular, this allows us to derive sharp non-asymptotic confidence intervals. We provide as well a Slutsky like Theorem, for practical applications, where the deviation bounds are also asymptotically independent of the corresponding Poisson problem. Eventually, we are able to handle, up to an additional constraint on the time steps, Lipschitz sources f in an appropriate non-degenerate setting.