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What do we know about Poisson boundaries of arbitrary Riemannian manifolds?
For closed manifolds, we know that the Poisson boundary is trivial due to compactness and for radially symmetric manifolds for which diffusion is one dimensional, there are A Brief Introduction to ...
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SDE driven by fractional Brownian motion
Let $B^H$ be a fraction Brownian motion of Hurst parameter $H$. Consider the SDE driven by $B^H$ as below:
$$dX_t = b(t,X_t)dt + a(t,X_t)dB^H_t,\quad \forall t\ge 0.$$
I am looking for references that ...
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Generating realizations from $n$-dimensional geometric Brownian motion where the variables are constrained to sum to 1
Is there a way to simulate an $N$-dimensional geometric Brownian motion i.e. variable $$x_i, i \in [1, N] $$ is diffusing in log-space such that $$\log (x_i)$$ follows a Brownian motion with a given ...
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Each diffusion SDE is associated to a *unique* family of transition kernels
I consider an SDE of the form $dX_t=b(X_t) \, dt + \sigma(X_t) \, dW_t$, with $b$ and $\sigma$ globally Lipschitz on $\mathbb{R}^n$.
How can I prove that there exists a unique family of transition ...
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Fractional Brownian motion of Riemann-Liouville type is not a semimartingale
Given a filtered probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},\mathbb{F},\mathbb{P})$ satisfying the usual conditions, $B$ a standard one-dimensional Brownian motion and $H\in(0,1/2)$. Consider the process $...
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Comparison of the numbers of particles surviving forever
Consider two $N\text{-}$particle systems as follows : for $1\le i\le N$,
$$X^i_t=1+\int_0^t(b+\phi^i_s) \, ds+W^i_t \quad\mbox{and} \quad Y^i_t=1+ct+W^i_t,\quad \forall t\ge 0,$$
where $c>b>0$ ...
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Generalized Fokker-Planck equation
Consider the diffusion process
$$
d X = \mu(X, t) dt + \sigma(X, t) dY.
$$
When $Y$ is a Brownian motion, we know that the density follows the Fokker-Planck equation. Here I'm considering the general ...
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Occupation time of SDE
Let $b:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}^d$ be locally Lipschitz and assume that, for any $x\in\mathbb{R}^d$ and any $f\in C^{\infty}([0,1],\mathbb{R}^d)$, the equation
$$
X_t^{x,f}=x+\int_0^t b(X_s^{x,f})\,...
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Is my quadratic variation derivative bounded?
Let $\{W_t\}_{t\in[0;T]}$ be a Brownian motion, let $\mu,\sigma\colon [0;T]\times\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ be continuous, bounded and Lipschitz continuous in the second argument, let $X$ be the unique ...
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Is the $\sqrt{{\rm time}}$ spread of a stochastic process about the global minima the ubiquitous phenomenon?
Given a function $f$ with a global minima at $x^*$, consider a stochastic process given as, $x_{t+1} = x_t - \nabla f(x_t) + \xi$ where $\xi$ is a random variable. Now we want to understand the ...
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Exit time for Brownian motion with stochastic barriers
I am interested in the expected exit time of a one-dimensional Brownian particle from a stochastically evolving interval as follows.
Context:
If $L_t$ and $R_t$ denote the distance to the left and ...
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Absolute value of a diffusion
Suppose $B_t$ is a standard Brownian motion on a filtered probability space $\langle \Omega, \mathcal F, \{\mathcal F_t\}_t, \mathbb P\rangle$. Consider two SDEs below.
Suppose, $X_0 = Y_0 = 0$
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Question about the exit time of a time-homogeneous Itô diffusion
Consider a one-dimensional Itô diffusion:
$$\mathrm{d} X_{t}=b\left(X_{t}\right) \mathrm{d} t+\sigma\left(X_{t}\right) \mathrm{d} B_{t}$$
where $X_0 = 0$ and $B_t$ is the standard Brownian Motion. ...
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How to find the PDE for the following transition density
Suppose I have the following two stochastic differential equations ($t\geq 0$)
$$dX_t = \mu(X_t)dt + \sigma(X_t)dW_t \ \ \text{ and } \ \ dZ_t =dt,$$
where $X = (X_t)$, $Z = (Z_t).$
Note that
$W=(...
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Smoothness of expectation
Suppose that $X_t$ is a strong solution to the SDE,
$$dX_t = C_t \,dB_t$$ where $B_t$ is a standard Brownian motion and $C_t \ge 0$ is measurable with respect to the natural filtration generated by ...
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Mutual dependencies of BSDE solutions with markovian drivers with different starting points
Let $(\Omega,\mathcal F, P)$ be a complete probability space with a Brownian motion $(W_t)_{0\le t\le T}$ and the Brownian standard filtration $(\mathcal F_t)_t$ with $\mathcal F_T = \mathcal F$.
Let ...
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Floquet stochastic process
Let $X_t$ be defined by the SDE
$$
dX_t = A(t, X_t)dt + dW_t
$$
where $A(t, X_t)$ is linear in $X_t$ and periodic in $t$. Assume also that the process is stable. If $A(\cdot)$ didn't have $t$ ...
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Conditional stochastic integration
Let's say we have two functions $h(s)$ and $g(s)$. We can easily simulate a stochastic integral, e.g.
$$t \mapsto \int_0^t h(s) dB(s) \sim \mathcal{N}\bigg(0, \int_0^t h(s)^2 ds \bigg). $$
What is the ...
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Matching Numbers in Ito McKean
Matching numbers are the basics Ito and McKean use to build out a bunch of stuff, like singular points and shunts. The four maching numbers $e_1, e_2, e_3, e_4$ are defined as
$e_1 = \lim_{b \...
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Any modern/recent version of Ito & McKean?
This's a wonderful book[1] but the latest edition I have is dated 1973. Is there recent book(s)/rewrite(s) that covers the same subjects and elucidate with more explicit arguments and details of their ...
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When we integrate with respect to a $Q$-Wiener process on $U$, why do we restrict integrands to be operators on $Q^{1/2}U$ (instead of $U$)?
When we integrate with respect to a $Q$-Wiener process $(W_t)_{t\ge 0}$ ($Q$ being a bounded, linear, nonnegative and self-adjoint operator on a separable $\mathbb R$-Hilbert space $U$ with finite ...
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Reflected SDE with non-Lipschitz coefficients
I have an equation of the form:
$$dX_t=\mu(X_t)dt+\sigma(X_t)dZ_t+dL_t, \quad X_0=x_0\in (-\infty,a]$$
where, $L_t$ is the reflection function (as in Skorokhod, 1961). This reflection does not allow ...
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Existence of solution for reflected SDE
I have an equation of the form:
$$dX_t=\mu(X_t)X_tdt+\sigma(X_t)X_tdZ_t+dL_t, \quad X_0=x_0\in (0,a]$$
where, $L_t$ is the reflection function (as in Skorokhod, 1961). This reflection does not allow ...
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Strong solution for geometric brownian motion with varying drift and volatility
I have an equation of the form:
$$dX_{t}=\mu(X_{t})X_{t}dt+\sigma(X_{t})X_tdZ_{t}$$
I know that if I wrote it as $dX_{t}=\mu(X_{t})dt+\sigma(X_{t})dZ_{t}$, I would need strong assumptions on the ...
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Continuity of solution map to Stratonovich Integral
For paths $x:[0, T] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$, the Stratonovich integral along a one form $\omega$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be defined by
$$ S_\omega(x) := \int_0^T \omega(x(t)) \mathrm{d}x(t) := \lim_{|\...
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$X_t = B_t^q$, $X_t = (\sin B_t)^q$, $X_t = B_t^q (\sin B_t)^r$, $dM_t = R_t\,M_t\,dB_t$ [closed]
What are the SDE's satisfied by the following processes?
$X_t = B_t^q$
$X_t = (\sin B_t)^q$
$X_t = B_t^q (\sin B_t)^r$
Assume $B_t$ is a standard Brownian motion with $B_0 > 0$ and the equations ...
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Law of motion when initial condition is perturbed
We know how to find the law of motion (Ito process) of the value function:
$$V_t(x)=E\Big{[}\int^{T}_te^{-r (s-t)}f(s,X_s)ds+e^{-r (T-t)}g(T, X_{T})|\mathcal{F}_t\Big{]}$$
such that
$$dX_t=\mu(t,X_t)...
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Time Change of a Brownian motion
We know that for if $X$ is a stochastic integral of the form below -
$X_t = \int_0^t v(s,\omega) db(s,\omega)$.
then we can use time change formula to claim that
$X_t = W_{\alpha(t)}$ where $W$ is ...
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Brownian bridge on a Lie group as a stochastic differential equation
Brownian motion $g_t$ on a compact Lie group satisfies the stochastic differential equation
$$dg_t = dB_t \circ g_t$$
where $B_t$ is Brownian motion on the Lie algebra and $\circ$ denotes ...
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Joint law of a standard Brownian motion and its local time at a nonzero level
Let $B_t$ be the standard Brownian motion and $L_t^a$ be the local time at level $a$. It is known that the joint-density of $(L_t^0,B_t)$ is
$$
P\left(B_t\in d y, L_t^0\in d v\right) = \frac{|y|+v}{\...
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Change of time variable in Wiener process
I'm following a solution of an SDE from here
http://www.math.ethz.ch/~delbaen/ftp/preprints/CEV.pdf
Start with the SDE
$$
dX_t = \delta dt + 2\sqrt{X_t} dW_t
$$
consider a deterministic time change
$...
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