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Ricardo Andrade
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Is there a theory of SDEs whose coefficients are themselves adapted processes (i.e. "may depend on the past")?

Is there an existence and uniqueness theorem for SDEs of the following type:

$dW_{t}=d\tilde{W}_{t}+\mu\left(\left(W_{s}\right)_{0\le s\le t},t\right)dt$,

where $\tilde{W}_{t}$ is say $d$-dimensional Brownian motion and where $\mu$ is a "nice" function of the path of the solution up to time t. (In the case I am interested in, it's a drift that turns on or off depending on whether certain $W_t$-stopping times have happened by time $t$ or not).

I could definitely construct the solution by "gluing together" solutions for intervals of time during which the drift only depends on the current position $W_t$, but I was wondering if there is a slicker way.

David
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