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Embedding a martingale by SDE
Let me reformulate my question. Let $(X_0,X_T)$ be a martingale on $\mathbb R$, then it is known that one has a SDE:
$$Z_t=Z_0+\int_0^t\sigma(s,Z_s)dB_s, \mbox{ for all } t\in [0,T]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(\...
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I've found a representation of the Itō-Stratonovich correction term and don't understand the used notion of a "trace"
Consider a Stratonovich SPDE $$X_t=X_0+\int_0^tb(s,X_s)\:{\rm d}s+\int_0^t\sigma(s,X_s)\circ{\rm d}W_s\tag 1$$ in a separable $\mathbb R$-Hilbert space $H$ with $W$ being a $Q$-Wiener process on a ...
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Perscribed/Inverting Conditional Expectation
I'm having difficulty finding papers which deal with the following inversion problem.
Suppose I have a stochastic process $Y_t$ (which is described by a certain Hilbert-Space-valued SDE). I want to ...
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Definition of the Stratonovich integral in Hilbert spaces
Let
$T>0$
$(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$ be a probability space
$\mathcal F=(\mathcal F_t)_{t\in[0,\:T]}$ be a filtration on $(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$
$B$ be a (standard, real-...
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Deriving the HJB equation for exponential utility
I would like to derive the HJB equation for the following stochastic optimal control problem:
$ \Phi(t,x)=\sup_{h} E \left[\exp \left\{\gamma \int_t^T g(X_s,h(s);\gamma)\ ds \right\} \right]$
where ...
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Time Integral over the (positive) Innovations of a Stochastic Process
Consider the Itô-Process
$$X(t) = X_{0} + \int_{0}^{t}\mu(s,X(s))\,ds + \int_{0}^{t}\sigma(s,X(s))\,dW(s)$$
where you can safely assume that the drift $\mu$ and the volatility $\sigma$ satisfy the ...
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Stochastic inverse
Let $X_t$ be a semi-martingale and $H_t$ be a predictable process and $g$ be a measurable bijective function with measurable inverse. Does there exist a function $f(h,x)$ satisfying
$$
\int_0^Tf(H_t,...
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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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Approximate an exponential martingale through its kernel
Given a deterministic function $h\in L^2([0,T]; \mathbb{R})$, we can define the associated exponential martingale
\begin{align}
M_t = \exp\left[\int_{0}^{t} h_s \,dB_s - \frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{t} h_s^2\...
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Does there exist a stochastic time derivative?
The Setup
Suppose I have a stochastic process $f(Z_t)$ where $Z_t$ solve the $d$-dimensional SDE
$$
dZ_t = \mu(t,Z_t)dt + \sigma(t,Z_t)dW_t
$$
and $f$ is a smooth function.
My Question
Is there a ...
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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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Itô Formula for Hilbert space-valued Lévy processes
I know there are Itô formulas for cylindrical Brownian motions with values in a Hilbert space and Itô formulas for Lévy processes in $\mathbb{R}^d$. My question is:
does there exist an Itô formula ...
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Hilbert-Space Values SDE in terms of Basis
Suppose:
$$
dX_t = a(t,X_t)dt + b(t,X_t)dW^H_t
$$
is an SDE with values in a separable Hilbert Space $H$, and $W^H_t$ is an $H$-valued cylindrical Wiener process. Then can we write the dynamics for $...
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Reference for convergence of Hilbert-space valued SDEs
I'm fairly familiar with the literature dealing with convergence of SDEs in $\mathbb{R}^d$ but recently I've needed to use extended results dealing with convergence of SDEs in Hilbert Spaces. However ...
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Second order calculus and rough paths
In Emery's book "Stochastic calculus in manifolds", he shows how to make sense of integrals of the form
$$ \int \langle\Theta_t, \mathbf{d} X_t\rangle,$$
where $X$ is a semimartingale on a manifold $M$...
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Asymptotic behavior of an integral of OU process
Let $X=(X_t)_{t\ge 0}$ be a stochastic process (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process) determined by
$$dX_t=-aX_tdt+\sigma dW_t,$$
where $X_0=0$, $a>0$ and $\sigma>0$ are constants, and $W=(W_t)_{t\ge 0}$...
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Derive a SPDE of evolutionary type for $u$ from ${\rm d}X(t)=u(t,X(t)){\rm d}t+\xi(t,X(t)){\rm d}W(t)$
Let
$U$ and $V$ be separable $\mathbb R$-Hilbert spaces
$\iota:U\to V$ be a Hilbert-Schmidt embedding
$Q:=\iota\iota^\ast$
$(e_n)_{n\in\mathbb N}$ be an orthonormal basis of $U$
$(\Omega,\mathcal A,\...
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Calculate Moments of SDE
I have posted a similar question on math.stackexchange (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1848492/calculate-mean-of-sde), but didn't find anyone who could help.
I'm interested in the one-...
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Given $\mathbb Q$ and $X_t$ is $\mathbb Q$-Brownian, find $\frac{d\mathbb Q}{d\mathbb P}$ / Uniqueness of Brownian or Radon-Nikodym derivative
The problem:
Let $T >0$, and let $(\Omega, \mathscr F, \{ \mathscr F_t \}_{t \in [0,T]}, \mathbb P)$ be a filtered probability space where $\mathscr F_t = \mathscr F_t^W$ where $W = \{W_t\}_{t \in ...
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Boundary behavior for Ito diffusions
The classification of boundary behavior for a time-homogeneous diffusion satisfying an Ito stochastic differential equation (SDE) is well known. According to the Feller classification, there are four ...
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Differentiability of a simple value function driven by a diffusion
Consider a diffusion given by,
$d X_t = \mu(X_t) dt + \sigma(X_t) dB_t$
$X_0 = x$.
Suppose the functions $\mu$ and $\sigma$ are as follows -
$f(x) = \mu(x) = \sigma(x) = \begin{cases} 2 & \...
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Stochastic process with discontinuous drift
While studying a portfolio optimization problem, I came across the process
$$dX(t) = X(t)\,\Big(\,\big(\mu - \alpha\,1_{\{X(t)\,\geq\,C\}}\big)\,dt + \sigma\,dW(t) \Big)$$
which has a discountinuous ...
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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
$$
\dot u = -u + f(a)
$$
$$
\...
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Relationship between the Itō formula for a Q-Wiener process and the Itō formula for a cylindrical Wiener process. A question on the trace term
Remark: Even when this question is about stochastic PDEs, it can be answered by someone who has no knowledge about probability theory or PDEs.
I'm reading Stochastic Differential Equations in ...
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A Stochastic Taylor Expansion/Asymptotics
Question:
Let $B(t)$ be the standard Brownian motion, $\mu(t,x)$ and $\sigma(t,x)$ are continuous functions, and
$$dr(t) = \mu(t,r(t))dt+\sigma(t,r(t))dB(t).$$
$(\mu,\sigma)$ obeys the linear growth ...
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Transition semigroup of Ito diffusion on $L^2(\mathbb{R})$
I am considering the transition semigroup $P_t$ associated with the Ito diffusion process
$$dX_t=b(X_t)dt+\sigma(X_t)dB_t,$$
where the coefficients are assumed to be Lipschitz continuous.
I hope to ...
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Processes with the same finite dimensional distributions as the solutions to SDEs
Consider a sequence of stochastic processes $\{\tilde{x}^n\}$, $\tilde{x}^n = \tilde{x}^n_t(\omega)$, and Brownian motions $\{\tilde{w}^n\}$. Suppose that for each $\tilde{x}^n$ solves the stochastic ...
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Does a theory of stochastic differential algebras exist?
My question is motivated primarily by finance, where a non-technical student will learn how to approach SDEs using the symbolic manipulation of Itô calculus and the few basic rules of Brownian motion, ...
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Malliavin differentiability of solutions to SDEs
In Bass's book on Diffusions and Elliptic Operators, the author gives a brief introduction into Malliavin Calculus. He calls a functional $F:C([0,1],\mathbb{R})\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ $L^p-$smooth if ...
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Malliavin derivative under change of measure
Let $\widetilde{B}$ be a Brownian Motion under the measure $\mathbb{P}$.
Let $\theta$ be a stochastic process fulfilling the Novikov's condition and $Z_\theta$ the relative Radon–Nikodym derivative ...
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Full version of Soucaliuc's research announcement "Réflexion entre deux diffusions conjuguées"
Florin Soucaliuc published the following research announcement in 2002 containing some results from his thesis on reflected diffusion processes:
[1] F. Soucaliuc, Réflexion entre deux diffusions ...
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Weak existence for modified Tanaka SDE
Tanaka's theorem (wikipedia) implies that $X_t = |B_t|$ is a weak solution to the SDE
$dX_t = dW_t + dL_t^0(X_t)$,
where $W_t$ is a Brownian motion and $L_t^0(X_t)$ is the local time of $X_t$ at $0$....
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using Feynman-Kac formula
I've been learning about Feynman-Kac recently and I understand the underlying ideas. I am stuck however in actually computing explicit solutions for specific problems. For example, suppose I have the ...
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Onsager-Machlup function for special matrix-valued diffusion process
Potentially useful background info
For standard vector-valued diffusion processes the following result is well-known:
Suppose we have a diffusion $X_{t}$ on $\mathbb{R}^{m}$ given by
\begin{align*}
...
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Intuition about Skorohod integral
I'm teaching myself Malliavin calculus and Skorohod integrals and with this kind of math I find myself following the logic through but lacking solid intuition about what is going on.
In particular ...
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What is the derivative of this integral?
I have asked this question here
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1536018/how-to-find-derivative-of-this-intergral
but still has no response.
Might I ask it here ?
Let $\alpha(t)\in\{0,1\}: ...
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Non-existence for a sort of probability measures
We suppose $X$ solves our SDE $dX_{t}=-X_{t}dt+dW_{t}$ for $t\geq0$ with initial condition $X_{0}=0$ w.r.t to our measure $P$ on $(\Omega,\mathcal{F})$.
$W_{t}$ is standard Wiener.
This solution is ...
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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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The existence of stationary measures for certain Markov process
My question is that:For a discrete-time random process $\{x_{t}\}_{t=1}^{\infty}$ and $x_{t} \in \Omega$ where $\Omega$ is a general state space(If $\Omega$ is a discrete space, it is a discrete-time ...
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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
$$
P\left(B_t\in d y, L_t^0\in d v\right) = \frac{|y|+v}{\...
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Stochastic differential equation associated with an optimal control problem
We know how to find the stochastic differential equation (Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, HJB) of the control problem where a process $X_t$ is controlled up until it is stopped at a stopping time $\...
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SDEs: Bounding the variance of a solution
I've been thinking about something that would seem intuitive, but I haven't really been able to dig a direct answer to. This is a rough draft of it.
Let
$$X_t = \mu_{X,t} \mathrm{d}t + \sigma_{X,t} \...
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Existence of strong solution to SDEs with non-Lipschitzian drift
Consider the SDE:
$$dX_t=b(X_t)dt+dW_t\quad X_0=x$$
If $b$ is bounded Borel function, using Zvonkin's Transform, one can prove there exists a unique strong solution.
I want to know if we assume $b$ ...
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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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Analytic Solution to SDEs
Are there any example of SDEs with constant diffusion terms, other than the Ornstein Uhlenbeck process, which have exact solutions? I'm thinking of something of the form:
\begin{equation}
dX_t = f(...
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Onsager-Machlup function and most probable path of a diffusion process
Let $X_{t}$ be a real, one-dimensional diffusion process satisfying the stochastic differential equation
\begin{equation}
dX_{t} = f(X_{t})dt + dW_{t},
\end{equation}
where $f \in C_{b}^{2}(R)$ is a ...
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Perturbation of a Bessel process of dimension 2
Bessel process of dimension 2 is defined to be solution of
$$
dX_t=dB_t+\frac{1}{2X_t}dt,\quad X_0=x_0>0
$$
where $B$ is a standard 1-dimensional Brownian motion.
$X$ can be viewed as the norm of a ...
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