Large deviations for dynamical Schr\"{o}dinger problems

Abstract

We establish large deviations for dynamical Schr\"{o}dinger problems driven by perturbed Brownian motions when the noise parameter tends to zero. Our results show that Schr\"{o}dinger bridges charge exponentially small masses outside the support of the limiting law that agrees with the optimal solution to the dynamical Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problem. Our proofs build on mixture representations of Schr\"{o}dinger bridges and establishing exponential continuity of Brownian bridges with respect to the initial and terminal points.