Functional large deviations for Stroock's approximation to a class of Gaussian processes with application to small noise diffusions

Abstract: Letting~$N=\left{N(t), t\geq0\right}$ be a standard Poisson process, Stroock~ \cite{Stroock-1981} constructed a family of continuous processes by $$\Theta_{\epsilon}(t)=\int_0^t\theta_{\epsilon}(r)dr, \ \ \ \ \ 0 \le t \le 1,$$ where $\theta_{\epsilon}(r)=\frac{1}{\epsilon}(-1)^{N(\epsilon^{-2}r)}$, and proved that it weakly converges to a standard Brownian motion under the continuous function topology. We establish the functional large deviations principle (LDP) for the approximations of a class of Gaussian processes constructed by integrals over $\Theta_{\epsilon}(t)$, and find the explicit form for rate function. As an application, we consider the following (non-Markovian) stochastic differential equation \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} X^{\epsilon}(t) &=x_{0}+\int^{t}{0}b(X^{\epsilon}(s))ds+\lambda(\epsilon)\int^{t}{0}\sigma(X^{\epsilon}(s))d\Theta_{\epsilon}(s), \end{aligned} \end{equation*} where $b$ and $\sigma$ are both Lipschitz functions, and establish its Freidlin-Wentzell type LDP as $\epsilon \rightarrow 0$. The rate function indicates a phase transition phenomenon as $\lambda(\epsilon)$ moves from one region to the other.