A class of multi dimensional degenerate diffusion processes X ε(t) in R r(r≥2) are considered and the asymptotic properties of empirical measures are investigated; here X ε(t) saitisfies the stochastic differential equation dX ε(t)=σ(X ε(t)) d W(t)+B(X ε(t)) d t+ εσ～(X ε(t)) d W(t),ε>0. X ε(t) are small random perturbations of the degenerate diffusion process X(t), which satisfies the stochastic differential equation dX(t)=σ(X(t)) d W(t)+B(X(t)) d t. A large deviation theorem for projection measures ν on R r-n (n
