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total variation distance between two solutions of SDE

Suppose we have two stochastic differential equations with the same initial conditions: $$d X_t^1= b_1(t,X_t^1)dt + dW_t$$ $$d X_t^2= b_2(t,X_t^2)dt + dW_t,$$ $X_0^1=X_0^2=x_0$; $W_\cdot$ is a ...
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Solving a matrix ODE

Consider the linear matrix differential equation $\def\diag{\mathrm{diag}}$ \begin{align} U(0) &= I\\ \frac{\mathrm{d}U}{\mathrm{d}t}(t) &= U(t) \phantom{.} Q(t) & & \quad(1) \end{...
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Smoothness of resolvent of the infinitesimal generator of an Ito diffusion acting on bounded continuous function

Let $dX_t=\sigma(X_t)\,dW_t+\mu(X_t)\,dt$ be an Ito diffusion with Lipschitz coefficients and $\sigma(x)>0$. Let $f(x)$ be a continuous and bounded and non decreasing function. Can we prove that ...
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General solution to system of stochastic linear differential equations

Assume we are given the system of linear stochastic differential equations $$dx_i = \sum_{j=1}^n a_{ij}(t) \cdot x_j \cdot dt + \sum_{j=1}^n \sigma_{ij}(t) \cdot x_j \cdot dB_{ij,t} + b_j(t)\cdot dt+\...
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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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Adiabatic elimination of a variable in a system of nonlinear stochastic ODEs?

If this is too basic for MathOverflow... say the word and I shall move it to Math.SE First consider this system of ODEs. Say I have two variables $u$ and $a$, following $$ \dot u = -u + f(a) $$ $$ \...
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How to rigorously prove that this sequence of stochastic processes converges to a deterministic process?

Assume that for each $n\in\mathbb{N}$, there's a stochastic function $f_n$ of type $\mathbb{R}^{m}\to\Delta\mathbb{R}^{m}$, and for each $x\in\mathbb{R}^{m}$, the distributions $\frac{f_n(x)-x}{\frac{...
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BSDE without volatility

Let $(W_t)_{0\leq t\leq 1}$ be a standard Wiener process on $[0,1]$, and let $\mathcal{F}_t$ be the natural filtration. Consider a BSDE $$ dX_t=f(t,X_t)dt+\sigma(t,X_t) dW_t $$ with terminal condition ...
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Backward stochastic differential equation

Let $W_t$ be a standard Brownian motion. Let $T$ be the terminal date, $X_T=x$, and $$ dX_t=f_tdt+B_tdW_t $$ where $f_t$ and $B_t$ (yet to be determined) have to be adapted to the filtration generated ...
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Solutions to linear SDE with many noise sources

It is well known how to solve the linear stochastic ODEs with one source of noise $$dX_t=(a(t)X_t+c(t))dt+(b(t)X_t+d(t))dW_t$$ See, for instance, https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1788853/...
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Finding a stochastic differential equation as limit of a discrete stochastic equation

I'm dealing with the following problem: Choose $Z_0 \in [0,1]$ and define a process governed by the following discrete stochastic equation: $Z_{k+1}-Z_k=P_k(1-2Z_k)$ where $P_k=0$ with probability $...
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Solutions to ODE/SDE with singular coefficients $dX_t = -X_t/t \, dt + g\,dW_t$

I encountered a question regarding the solutions to SDEs with singular drifts. I searched the literature but had a hard time figuring out the intuition behind these analytic results assuming different ...
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