Lefevere, Raphaël; Mariani, Mauro; Zambotti, Lorenzo - In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications 121 (2011) 10, pp. 2243-2271
We investigate large deviations for the empirical measure of the forward and backward recurrence time processes associated with a classical renewal process with arbitrary waiting-time distribution. The Donsker-Varadhan theory cannot be applied in this case, and indeed it turns out that the large...