Analysis of stochastic neutral fractional functional differential equations

Abstract This work deals with the large deviation principle which studies the decay of probabilities of certain kind of extremely rare events. We consider stochastic neutral fractional functional differential equation with multiplicative noise and show large deviation principle for its solution processes in a suitable Polish space. The existence and uniqueness results are presented using the Picard iterative method, which is indeed essential for further analysis. The establishment of Freidlin–Wentzell type large deviation principle is solely based on the variational representation developed by Budhiraja and Dupuis in which the weak convergence technique is used to show the sufficient condition. Examples are provided to emphasize the theory.