Large deviations and rate of escape for hyperbolic random walks

Abstract: Let $\Gamma$ be a countable group acting on a geodesic hyperbolic metric space $X$ and $\mu$ a probability measure on $\Gamma$ which generates a non elementary semi-group. Under the necessary assumption that $\mu$ has a finite exponential moment, we establish large deviations results for the distance of a random walk with driving measure $\mu$.