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RELATIVE ENTROPY AND LARGE DEVIATIONS UNDER SUBLINEAR EXPECTATIONS

  • GAO Fu-Qing ,
  • XU Ming-Zhou
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  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Received date: 2011-03-21

  Online published: 2012-09-20

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Research supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11171262) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (200804860048).

Abstract

We give a definition of relative entropy with respect to a sublinear expectation and establish large deviation principle for the empirical measures for independent random variables under the sublinear expectation.

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GAO Fu-Qing , XU Ming-Zhou . RELATIVE ENTROPY AND LARGE DEVIATIONS UNDER SUBLINEAR EXPECTATIONS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2012 , 32(5) : 1826 -1834 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(12)60143-X

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