Freidlin-Wentzell’s Large Deviations for Stochastic Evolution Equations with Poisson Jumps ()
1. Introduction
The weak convergence method of proving a large deviation principle has been developed by Dupuis and Ellis in [1] . The main idea is to get sevral variational representation formulas for the Laplace transform of certain functionals, and then to prove an equi- valence between Laplace principle and large deviation principle (LDP). For Brownian functionals, Boué and Dupuis [2] have proved an elegant variational representation formula (also can be found in Zhang [3] ). For Poisson functionals, we can see Zhang [4] . Recently, a variational representation formula on Wiener-Poisson space has been estab- lished by Budhiraja, Dupuis, and Maroulas in [5] . These type variational representations have been proved to be very effective for both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimen- sional stochastic dynamical systems (cf. [6] - [10] ). The main advantages of this method are that we only have to make some necessary moment estimates.
However, there are still few results on the large deviation for stochastic evolution equations with jumps. In [11] , Röckner and Zhang considered the following type semi-linear stochastic evolutions driven by Lévy processes

they established the LDP by proving some exponential integrability on different spaces. Later, Budhiraja, Chen and Dupuis developed a large deviation for small Poisson perturbations of a more general class of deterministic equations in infinite dimensional ( [12] ), but they did not consider the small Brownian perturbations simultaneously.
Motivated by the above work, we would like to prove a Freidlin-Wentzell’s large deviation for nonlinear stochastic evolution equations with Poisson jumps and Brownian motions. At the same time, nonlinear stochastic evolution equations have been studied in various literatures (cf. [13] - [17] ). So we consider the following stochastic evolution equation:

in the framework of a Gelfand’s triple:

where V, H (see Section 2) are separable Banach and separable Hilbert space respec- tively. We will establish LDP for solutions of above evolution equation on
, where
is H-valued cádlág function space with the Skorokhod topology. For stochastic evolution equations without jumps, Ren and Zhang [9] and Liu [8] achieved the LDP on
(
) and
(
) respectively. In our case, there are two new difficulties. The first one is to find a sufficient condition to characterize a compact set in
(see Proposition 4) instead of Ascoli-Arzelà’s theorem for continuous case, the second one is to control the jump parts. This form of equation contains a large class of (nonliear) stochastic partial differential equation of evolutional type, for applications and examples we refer the reader to [8] , [9] . The equations we consider here are more general than the equations considered in [11] , and we use a different method. We note that, the large deviations for semilinear SPDEs in the sense of mild solutions were considered in paper [18] recently. For other recent research on this topic, see also [12] , [19] .
In Section 2, we firstly give some notations and recall some results from [5] , which are the basis of our paper, and then introduce our framework. In Section 3, we prove the large deviation principle. In the last section, we give an application. Note that notations c,
and
below will only denote positive constants whose values may vary from line to line.
2. Preliminaries and Framework
We first recall some notations from [5] .
Let
be a locally compact Polish space and denote by
the space of all measures
on
, satisfying
for every compact
. Let
be the space of continuous functions with compact support.
is a Polish space endowed with the weakest topology such that for every
,
is a continuous function.
Set
. Fix
and let
. Let
and denote by
the unique probability measure on
such that the canonical map,
,
, is a Poisson random measure with intensity
, where
,
and
are Lebesgue measures on
and
respectively.
Let G be a real separable Hilbert space and let Q be a positive definite and symmetric trace operator defined on G. Set
and
. Let
be defined by
, for
. Let W be the coordinate map on
defined as
. Define
. We denote by P the unique probability measure on
such that under P:
1) W is a Q-Wiener process;
2) N is a Poisson random measure with intensity measure
;
3)
,
are
-martingales for every
.
We denote by
be P-completion of the filtration
. From now on, we will work on the probability space
with filtration
.
Denote by
the predictable s-field on
with the filtration
on
. Let
.
, de- fine
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where
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and define a counting process
as
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For fixed
, let
(1)
By [5] , we can define
,
for a function
, and identify g with measure
. Besides,
is a compact subset of
through the superlinear groth of l. We can also consider the to- pology on
which makes
a compact space.
Remark 1. We note that, for
,
,
in this topology means
, that is, for any
,
holds as
.
Set
and define
. Let
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(2)
We endow
with the weak topology on the Hilbert space such that
is a compact subset of
.
Let
with the usual product topology. Set
and let
be the space of
-valued controls:
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Let
be a Polish space and let
be a set of
-valued random variables
defined on
by
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where
is a family of measurable maps from
to
.
Hypothesis. There exists a measurable map
such that the following hold.
1) For
, if a family
converges in distribution to
, then
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where Þ denotes the weak convergence.
2) For
, let
be such that
. Then
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For
, define
. Let
be
(3)
where
.
We have the following important result due to [5] .
Theorem 2. Under the above Hypothesis,
satisfies a large deviation prin- ciple with rate function I.
Now we introduce our framework and assumptions.
Let
be a real separable Hilbert space. Let V be a reflexive Banach space and
be the dual space of V and
denotes the corresponding dualization. Identify H with its dual
and the following assumptions are satisfied:
1)
;
2) V is dense in H;
3) there exists a constant c such that for all
,
;
4)
.
Let
be the space of Hilbert-Schmidt linear operators from G to H, which is a real separable Hilbert space with the inner product
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where
is an orthonormal basis of G. We denote by
the set of all linear operators C mapping
into H such that
, and the norm
.
Let
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be progressively measurable. For example, for every
, A restricted to
is
-measurable.
We assume throughout this paper that:
(H1) Hermicontinuity: For any
,
and any
, the mapping
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is continuous.
(H2) Weak monotonicity: There exist
such that for all ![]()
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holds on
.
(H3) Coercivity: For all
and
, there exist
such that
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holds on
.
(H4) For all
and
, there exists
such that
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holds on
.
(H5) There exists
such that for all
,
and ![]()
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and
(4)
(H6) There exist some compact
,
, for all
. For any
,
is continuous on
.
(H7)
compactly.
3. Large Deviation Principle
Consider small noise stochastic evolution equation as following:
(5)
Under the assumptions (H1)-(H5), by [15] , [17] , there exists a unique solution in
to Equation (5). By Yamada-Watanabe theorem, there exists a measurable mapping
such that
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We now fix a family of processes
, and put
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By Girsanov’s theorem,
is the unique solution of the following controlled sto- chastic evolution equation:
(6)
Remark 3. For
, by (1) and (2), there exists a constant
such that for all
,
(7)
We will verify that
satisfies the Hypothesis with
replaced by
. By using the similar method as in [9] , we have the following uniform estimates about
.
Lemma 1. There exists a constant
such that, for all
,
(8)
(9)
In order to characterize a compact set in
, we need the following lemma.
Lemma 2. For any
and
, there exist
and
such that for any
, we have
(10)
Proof. For fixed
and any t such that
, we have
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Therefore
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where
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For
, by (H4), Hölder’s inequality and Lemma 1, we have
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where
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By (7), we have
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So by (9) and dominated convergence theorem, for all
, we obtain
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For
,
, by BDG’s inequality, (H5) and Lemma 1, we obtain
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and
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Hence, for any ![]()
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By choosing
and
small enough, then (10) holds immediately.
Proposition 4. For a sequence of
-valued random variable
, if
satisfies the following two conditons:
1) For any
, there are
,
, with
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2) For any
and
, there are
,
, with
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Then
is C-tight, that is,
is tightness in
and if X is a limit point then
a.s..
Proof. It’s obvious that (2) implies the following condition (cf. [20] , p. 290). For any
and
, there are
,
, with
(11)
where
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For the finite family
, we can find
and
such that
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Hence, replacing R by
in (1) and
by
in (11), we obtain that they still hold with
.
Fix
. Let
and
satisfy
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Then
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satisfies
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By (H7), we have
compactly. So,
satisfies the conditions of Theorem A2.2 ( [21] , p. 563), then it’s relatively compact in
. This implies tightness of
.
It remains to prove that if a subsequence, still denoted by
, converges in law to some X, then X is a.s. continuous. By taking the same scheme as in Proposition 3.26 (cf. [20] , p. 315) and replacing
by
in the proof, we complete the proof.
According to Lemma 1 and Lemma 2, we have the following result:
Corollary 1. The sequence
is C-tight in
.
Lemma 3. Assume that for almost all
,
weakly converges to
in
for fixed
and there is a
-valued process
such that
(12)
Then,
solves the following equation:
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Moreover, we have
(13)
and if
in (H2), then
(14)
Proof. We divide our proof into several steps.
Step 1. By Lemma 1, we have
(15)
and
(16)
Therefore, by the strong convergence of
to
as in (12). We get, for almost all
,
converges weakly to
in H and
converges to
weakly in
; and so we have
(17)
(18)
By (12), (16) and dominated convergence theorem, we have
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Thus
(19)
Step 2. In this step, we prove
solves Equation (13). By (H4) and (15), we have
(20)
Hence, by (15) and (20), there exist subsequences of
,
and
(still denoted by themselves for simplicity) and
,
and
such that
(21)
(22)
and
(23)
Define
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Note that
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By taking weak limits and by (19), we can get
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Indeed, for any V-valued bounded and measurable process
,
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By (21), (23) and taking limits for
, then we get (see also the proof of (27) and (29) below)
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which implies
for almost all
. Similarly, we have
for almost all
.
We only have to prove
(24)
Let
. By Itô’s formula
(25)
By (H2)
(26)
as
.
We now prove
(27)
Since
weakly converges to
in
(see (2)), then
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the last limit follows by using dominated convergence theorem. By (2), (H5), Lemma 1 and (19), we also have
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and
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Then limit (27) follows.
Moreover, it is easy to get that
(28)
Now we prove the following limit:
(29)
By (H5), Lemma 1 and (19), we have
(30)
where
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and
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For
, by Young inequality, we have
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by noting (16) and (19). For
, by (4), (H6) and
, it’s easy to verify
is a continuous function on
with the compact su-
pport
, and by the weak convergence of
to
(see Remark 1) and domi- nated convergence theorem,
as
. Then (30) goes to 0 as
. Similarly, we have
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Then, we get (29).
It is obvious that
(31)
Combining (26) to (31) yields that
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On the other hand, by Itô’s formula we have
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So, we have
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which implies (24) by (H1).
Step 3. In this step we prove (13) and (14). Notice that
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By Itô’s formula, we have
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where
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By Lemma 1 and BDG’s inequality, we get
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For
, we have
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Similarly
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For
, like
, we have
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Similarly
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For
, by (H5) and (H6) we have
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Assume
, then
(32)
Set
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then
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So
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Notice (32), we get (13) and (14) immediately.
We also have the following main lemma.
Lemma 4. There exists a probability space
and a sequence (for conve-
nience, still denote by
)
and
defined on this space and taking value in
with
such that:
1) For each
,
has the same law as
;
2)
in
,
-a.s., as
;
3)
uniquely solves the following equation:
(33)
Moreover, we have
(34)
and if
, then
(35)
Proof. From Corollary 1, we have
is C-tight in
. By the com- pactness of
, the law of
in
is tight. By Skorok- hod’s embedding theorem, (1) and (2) hold. Since
-a.s. and
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Then, the other conclusions follow from Lemma 3 and noting for
almost all
,
.
Remark 5. Assume that (H1)-(H7) and
hold, we have verified Hypothesis (1) by the above lemma.
For fixed
, let
and let
such that
is the unique solution of
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We point out that the difference between
in the above equation and
in (13) is that
is not random. We have the following result.
Lemma 5. Assume that (H1)-(H7) and
hold. Let
,
be such that
in the weak topology of
(see Section 2), then
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Proof. Similar to the proofs of Lemma 1 and 2, we can get ![]()
is C-tight. As in Lemma 4, there exist a subsequence
(still denoted by m) and
satisfying
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Combining with this convergence and the method used in the proof of Lemma 3, we have
, then the result holds.
Using Remark 5, Lemma 5 and Theorem 2, we obtain the following large deviation principle.
Theorem 6. Under the same assumptions as in Lemma 5,
satisfies a large deviation principle with rate function I defined as in (3), i.e. for any ![]()
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where
is the law of
in
and
is
.
Remark 7. If
, then the conclusion still holds if
is replaced by
.
4. Application―Stochastic Porous Medium Equation
Similar to [9] , consider a bounded domain
in
with smooth boundary. For
, let
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The inner product in H is defined by
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establish an isomorphism between
and
. We identify
with the dual space
and H, then
. There- fore
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and the inclusions are compact.
Let
. For
, denote by
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Then
and (H1)-(H4) hold (cf. [9] [16] ).
Let
. Define
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where
are Lipschitz continuous on
. Let
,
, and define
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where
are Lipschitz continuous on
. Then B and f satisfy (H5)-(H6).
Consider the following stochastic porous medium equation
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Let
be the law of
in
. Then the conclusion of Theorem 6 holds.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the Editor and the referee for their valuable comments. This work is supported in part by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LQ13A010020) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11401029).