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Lewis, J.T. (1988). The large deviation principle in statistical mechanics: an expository account. In: Truman, A., Davies, I.M. (eds) Stochastic Mechanics and Stochastic Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077923
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