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Large Deviations in the Supremum Norm for a Reaction-Diffusion System

We present large deviations estimates in the supremum norm for a system of independent random walks superposed with a birth-and-death dynamics evolving on the discrete torus with $N$ sites. The scaling limit considered is the so-called \textit{high density limit} (see the survey \cite{franco} on the subject), where space, time and initial quantity of particles are rescaled. The associated rate functional here obtained is a semi-linearised version of the rate function of \cite{JonaLandimVares}, which dealt with large deviations of exclusion processes superposed with birth-and-death dynamics. An ingredient in the proof of large deviations consists in providing a limit of a suitable class of perturbations of the original process. This is precisely one of the main contributions of this work: a strategy to extend the original high density approach (as in \cite{Arnold,blount2,blount,francogroisman,Kote2,KoteHigh1988}) to weakly asymmetric systems. Two cases are considered with respect to the initial quantity of particles, the power law and the (at least) exponential growth. In the first case, we present the lower bound only on a certain subset of smooth profiles, while in the second case, additionally assuming concavity of the birth and the death functions and a constant initial profile, we provide a full large deviations principle.