Some properties of the rate function of quenched large deviations for random walk in random environment

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in some questions of Greven and den Hollander about the rate function $I\_{\eta }^q$ of quenched large deviations for random walk in random environment. By studying the hitting times of RWRE, we prove that in the recurrent case, $\lim \_\theta \to 0^{+}(I\_{\eta }^q{)}^{\prime \prime }(\theta )=+\infty$, which gives an affirmative answer to a conjecture of Greven and den Hollander. We also establish a comparison result between the rate function of quenched large deviations for a diffusion in a drifted Brownian potential, and the rate function for a drifted Brownian motion with the same speed.