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Let $(X, W)$ be a weak solution to a SDE. Is $W$ a Brownian motion w.r.t. $\sigma(X_s : s \le t)$?
Let $(X, W)$, $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})$, $\{\mathcal{F}_t\}$ be a weak solution to an SDE.
Per definition $W$ is an $\mathcal{F}_t$-Brownian motion and both $X$, $W$ are adapted to $\mathcal{...
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On the Lipschitz constant of $\Gamma$
Let $b: \mathbb R_+\times\mathbb R\times \mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ be a function as nice as possible, and $C^1([0,T])$ be the space of continuously differentiable functions $\alpha:[0,T]\to\mathbb R$ ...
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When enlarging a filtration makes a stochastic processes into a solution to an SDE
Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $(Y_t)_{t\in [0,1]}$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ be a stochastic process defined on a filtered probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},(\mathcal{F}_t)_{t\in [0,1]},\mathbb{P}...
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Conditions ensuring that conditional law of a process belongs to a given exponential family
Let $(X_t,Y_t)_{t\geq 0}$ be a pair of $\mathbb{R}^n$-(resp. $\mathbb{R}^m$)-valued stochastic processes on a filtered probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},(\mathcal{F}_t)_{t\geq 0},\mathbb{P})$, ...
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Gronwall type lemma for an Ito process
For all $t\in \mathbb{R}$ let $h_t = \frac{1}{2} + \int_0^t v_s\cdot dB_s$ be an Itô process, where $B_s$ is a standard Brownian of $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $v_t$ an $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued adapted process, ...
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If $(\alpha_t)$ is $\mathbb{F}^X$-progressive for a continuous process $(X_t)$, can we write $\alpha_t = \tilde{\alpha}(t,X)$?
Let $X = (X_t)_{t \geq 0}$ be a continuous, real-valued process defined on some probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},P)$, and let $\mathbb{F}^X = (\mathcal{F}_{t}^X)_{t \geq 0}$ be the filtration ...
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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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Derivative of the function of random variable
Suppose we have a function $\phi(X)$ of random variable $X$. Suppose both of $\phi(X)$ and $X$ are random variables. If $\phi$ is differentiable, how to calculate the derivative of $\phi(X)$ w.r.t. $...
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Generator of a Hilbert space valued Wiener process from the solution of a martingale problem
Let $H$ be a separable $\mathbb R$-Hilbert space, $Q\in\mathfrak L(U)$ be nonnegative and self-adjoint with $\operatorname{tr}Q<\infty$ and $(W_t)_{t\ge0}$ be a $H$-valued Wiener process on a ...
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Path dependent Markov property
Let's consider a function $\Psi\in \mathcal{C}_B(\mathcal{C}[t,T])$ continuous and bounded
\begin{align*}
\Psi \colon \mathcal{C}[t,T] \longrightarrow [0,+\infty)
\end{align*}
Then my question is:...
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Ito's Lemma (CVF) on product of Poisson processes
I have the following stochastic differential equation:
$da(t)=\{r(t)a(t)+w(t)−pc(t)\}dt+βa(t)dq(t)$,
with $q(t)$ a Poisson process with arrival rate $λ$ and its increment $dq(t)$ is denoted by:
$dq(t)...
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Large deviations estimate for arbitrary continuous function
Fix $\epsilon>0$ and let $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},\mathcal{F}_t,\mathbb{P})$ be a stochastic base, and let $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^n$ be a continous function with $f(0)=0$. Is there a family of ...
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On the level of measure theory, what does it mean for a drift to be deterministic?
Given a drift $F\in W^{1,2}([0,T])$ adapted to the filtration of a Brownian motion $B(t)$ on Wiener space $(C[0,T],\mathcal B(\|\cdot \|_\infty)$ with Wiener measure $\mu_0$, there is another measure $...
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conditional expected value and in Stochastic differential equations
Let's suppose I have a bidimensional SDE of the form:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:system}
\begin{cases}
dX_t=b(t,X_t,Y_t)dt+\sigma(t,X_t,Y_t)dW_t^1 \\
X_0=x_0 \\
dY_t= B(t,X_t,Y_t)dt+C(t,X_t,Y_t)dW_t^...
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Existence and uniqueness of the asymptotic distribution of $x(k+1) = Ax(k) + v(k)$
Consider the linear discrete-time stochastic systems:
\begin{equation}
x_{k+1} = Ax_k + v_k,
\end{equation}
with time-instants $k \in \mathbb{N}$, state $x_k \in \mathbb{R}^n$, stochastic process $v_k ...
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Associative law of the stochastic integral in Hilbert spaces
Let
$(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$ be a complete probability space
$T>0$
$I:=(0,T]$
$(\mathcal F_t)_{t\in\overline I}$ be a complete and right-continuous filtration on $(\Omega,\mathcal A)$
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Domain of a reflected stochastic differential equation
I am currently investigating the domain of the infinitesimal generator of a reflected stochastic differential equation (for a smooth and bounded domain) with Lipschitz coefficients. Namely SDEs of the ...
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Onsager-Machlup Function of a Killed Diffusion Process
Given a diffusion process $ X_t $ on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, with an infinitesimal generator $\mathcal{G}=\Delta_g/2 + b$, the Onsager-Machlup function is well-known to be: $$ \mathcal{L}(x,v) =...
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Construction of the quadratic variation for Hilbert space valued local martingales
Let
$H$ be a separable $\mathbb R$-Hilbert space
$(e_n)_{n\in\mathbb N}$ be an orthonormal basis of $H$
$(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$ be a probability space
$(\mathcal F_t)_{t\ge0}$ be a ...
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Stochastic Control with Stochastic Cost-functional
Is there any literature dealing with a stochastic control problem whose cost-functional $J_t$ is stochastic also?
That is, let $X_t^u$ is the solution to a controlled SDE
$$
dX_t = \mu(t,u_t,X_t^u)dt ...
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Mean and Variance of SDE
What is the mean and the variance of $y_t$, given the following SDE:
$dy_t = -x_t y_t dt + \sigma_1 dW^1_t$
$dx_t = -\sigma_2 y_t dW^2_t$
$W^1$ and $W^2$ are (possibly correlated) Wiener processes.
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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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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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Some doubts on proof of pathwise uniqueness of a stochastic differential equation
I quote a paper from Delbaen and Shirakawa (2002). I will write in italics my observations/questions.
Starting from a stochastic differential equation of the form:
$$dr_t=\alpha\left(r_{\mu}-r_t\...
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Non-smooth Ito lemma for semi-martingales
Is there an extension of Ito's Lemma where $X_t$ is a semi-martingale and $f:\mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a function which is not smooth?
I've been looking but have not found much, any ...
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Distribution of local martingale is absolutly continuous to that of the Brownian motion?
Let $B(t, \omega)$ be a Brownian motion defined on a probability space $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})$, adapted to a filtration $\{\mathcal{F}_t\}$. Let $\phi(t, \omega)$ be a $\{\mathcal{F}_t\}$-...
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What is the derivative of this integral?
I have asked this question here
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1536018/how-to-find-derivative-of-this-intergral
but still has no response.
Might I ask it here ?
Let $\alpha(t)\in\{0,1\}: ...
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Non-negativity of stochastic integral with indicator, Meyer-Tanaka Local Time
Consider the following stochastic integral:
$$
X_t := \int_0^t \mathbb{I}_{ \{ W_s \geq 0 \}}\, dW_s.
$$
Is $X_t$ almost-surely non-negative?
Using this answer, it seems that
$$
X_t = \max( W_t, 0) - \...
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Infinite-dimensional Gaussian measure vs finite-dimensional Wiener measure
I'm trying to figure out the connections between two contructions of Gaussian measure.
Let $(U, \langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle_U)$ be a seprable Hilbert space, and $\mathcal{B}(U)$ be the Borel sigma-...
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About deriving the Fokker-Plank-Smoluchowski equation of a (homogeneous) S.D.E
We recall that given a $d-$dimensional stochastic process defined as a solution of a homogeneous S.D.E $dX_t = b(X_t)dt + \sigma(X_t)dB_t$ its corresponding infinitesimal generator ${\cal L}$ is s.t ...
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Probability that a geometric Brownian motion with additional determinstic drift ever hits zero
Let $W$ be a standard Brownian motion, and let $X_t$ be the solution to the following SDE
$$dX_t = (\mu X_t - Cke^{-kt}) \, dt + \sigma X_t \, dW_t$$
where $\mu, \sigma, C, k > 0$ are constants, ...
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How to understand the transition density of reflected Brownian motion
We can see from the above picture the transition density of reflecting Browninan motion is given by (19). As we know, the first part ($2p(t,x,y)$) is the transition density of a Brownian motion (from $...
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Hitting probability for mean-reverting stochastic process
I quote Delbaen and Shirakawa (2002).
Starting from a stochastic differential equation of the form:
$$dr_t=\alpha\left(r_{\mu}-r_t\right)dt+\beta\sqrt{\left(r_t-r_m\right)\left(r_M-r_t\right)}dW_t\...
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Stochastic invariant subset
Let us consider a stochastic differential equation (SDE),
$$
dx_{t}=f\left( x_{t}\right) dt+\sigma\left( x_{t}\right) dW_{t}%
$$
and a compact set $C\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$.
Given a stochastic ...
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Conditions on SDE coefficients for well-posedness of Fokker-Planck equation
Consider the following $n$-dimensional Ito-SDE:
\begin{align}
dX_t = \mu(X_t,t)dt + \sigma(X_t,t)dW_t
\end{align}
What are the necessary regularity conditions on $\mu$ and $\sigma$ to ensure that the ...
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Bound on the radon-nikodym derivative between two stochastic processes at a time point
I have two stochastic differential equations on $\mathbb{R}^d$ adapted to the same filtration evolving for finite time $t\in [0, T]$ at the same start distribution:
\begin{align*}
dX_t &= b(t, X_t)...
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When we should integrate on both side over a SDE?
Maybe I am quite stupid, I am quite confused about, when we should use ito formula to solve SDE and when it is appropriate to integrate directly to get the solution?
Specifically, let us consider the ...
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Laplace transform of a stochastic process
Let $R := (R_1, R_2)$ be a two-dimensional diffusion process defined by the following SDE:
$$\mathrm{d}R_{1,t} = -\lambda_1 R_{1,t} \, \mathrm{d}t + \lambda_1 \sigma(R_{1,t}, R_{2,t}) \, \mathrm{d}W_t$...
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Predictability of the mild solution of a SPDE
Consider the following theorem (picture below) taken from Pardoux's lecture notes: Stochastic partial differential equations available at scholar google: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=etienne+...
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Regularity of solutions to forward-backward stochastic differential equations
Suppose $X_t$, $P_t$ and $Z_t$ are one dimension random processes and satisfy
$$
\left\{
\begin{aligned}
d X_t
&= aP_t dt +bdB_t;\\
X_0
&= x_0;\\
d P_t
&=cP_t dt + c^*Z_t dB_t;
\\
P_T
&...
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The relationship between measurability and weak measurability
For a Banach-valued random mapping $f:\Omega\rightarrow X$, there are three kind of measurability: strong measurability (can be approximated by sequence of simple
functions, measurability (the ...
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Malliavin derivative of Ito process
Let $X_t= X_0 + \int_0^t \mu(s,X_s)ds + \int_0^t \sigma(s,X_s)dW_s$ where $\mu$ and $\sigma$ are $C^1$ functions satisfying the usual growth restriction and $W_t$ is a $d$-dimensional Brownian motion. ...
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Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type process with thresholding
(Edited) I met a univariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type process but with self soft-thresholding:
$$
dX(t) = - c\ \mbox{sgn}(X(t))\big[|X(t)|-c_1 t^{\mu}\big]_+ dt + \sigma dB(t), \quad X(0)=0,
$$
where $...
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If $(Φ^x)_{x∈ℝ}$ is a family of real-valued stochastic processes and $B$ is a Brownian motion, then $\int_0^tΦ^x_s\:dB_s=(\int_0^t\Phi_s\:dB_s)(x)$
Let
$T>0$
$(\Omega,\mathcal A,\operatorname P)$ be a probability space
$(\mathcal F_t)_{t\in[0,\:T]}$ be a complete filtration on $(\Omega,\mathcal A)$
$B$ be a (standard, real-valued) $\mathcal F$...
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Embedding a martingale by SDE
Let me reformulate my question. Let $(X_0,X_T)$ be a martingale on $\mathbb R$, then it is known that one has a SDE:
$$Z_t=Z_0+\int_0^t\sigma(s,Z_s)dB_s, \mbox{ for all } t\in [0,T]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(\...
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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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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
$$dX_t=\mu(t,X_t)...
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joint density of two relevant random variables
It seems that for most of the examples to derive the joint density of two or more random variables, the random variables themselves need to be independent. Is it possible to get the joint density of ...
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The probability distribution of "derivative" of a random variable
Disclaimer: Cross-posted in math.SE.
Let me set the stage;
Consider a stochastic PDE, which has to following form
$$\partial_t h(x,t) = H(x,t) + \chi(x,t),$$
where $H$ is a deterministic function, ...
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Problem arising from martingale solutions to SPDE: $Law(u)=Law(v)$ on $C([0,T]; X)$, can $Law(u)=Law(v)$ on $C([0,t]; X)$ for $t<T$?
I ask this question because I found in some papers of martingale solutions to SPDE, to prove the approximate solutions $u_n$ is a convergent sequence, one can use "stochastic compact" method to find ...
