Large deviations for additive functionals of one-dimensional zero-range processes

Abstract

We prove a large deviation principle for additive functionals of local Lipschitz functions of a one-dimensional symmetric zero-range process on the diffusive scale. The rate function is obtained from the dynamical large deviation principle for the empirical density and is characterized by a variational constraint involving the density at a fixed spatial point. On the microscopic side, a super-exponential replacement is needed to replace the local observable with a function of the empirical density. On the macroscopic side, the spatial regularity enjoyed by finite-rate trajectories is needed to pass from spatial averages to point evaluation.