Moderate deviations for Markovian occupation times

In this paper, we establish the moderate deviations for occupation times of Markov processes under the conditions given in Darling–Kac (1957. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 84, 444–458). When applied to the law of the iterated logarithm, our results generalize those obtained in Marcus–Rosen (1994a. Ann. Probab. 22, 626–658; 1994b. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Statist. 30, 467–499) for Levy processes and random walks, and those obtained recently by the author (1999. Ann. Probab. 27, 1324–1346) for Harris recurrent Markov chains.