The convergence of discrete approximations of generalized reflected backward stochastic differential equations with random terminal time in a general convex domain is studied. Applications to investigation obstacle elliptic problem with Neumann boundary condition for partial differential equations are given.
We study convergence for the Euler scheme for stochastic differential equations reflecting on the boundary of a general convex domain D ⊆ ℝd. We assume that the equation has the pathwise uniqueness property and its coefficients are measurable and continuous almost everywhere with respect to the Lebesgue measure. In the case D=[0,∞) new sufficient conditions ensuring pathwise uniqueness for equations with possibly discontinuous coefficients are given.
Much of uncertainty quantification to date has focused on determining the effect of variables modeled probabilistically, and with a known distribution, on some physical or engineering system. We develop methods to obtain information on the system when the distributions of some variables are known exactly, others are known only approximately, and perhaps others are not modeled as random variables at all.The main tool used is the duality between risk-sensitive integrals and relative entropy, and we...
We define a class of distributions on Poisson space which allows to iterate a modification of the gradient of [1]. As an application we obtain, with relatively short calculations, a formula for the chaos expansion of functionals of jump times of the Poisson process.
We study the numerical approximation of doubly reflected backward stochastic differential equations with intermittent upper barrier (RIBSDEs). These denote reflected BSDEs in which the upper barrier is only active on certain random time intervals. From the point of view of financial interpretation, RIBSDEs arise as pricing equations of game options with constrained callability. In a Markovian set-up we prove a convergence rate for a time-discretization scheme by simulation to an RIBSDE. We also...
We improve the geometric properties of processes derived in an earlier paper, which are then used to obtain more results about the duality of SLE. We find that for κ∈(4, 8), the boundary of a standard chordal SLE(κ) hull stopped on swallowing a fixed x∈ℝ∖{0} is the image of some trace started from a random point. Using this fact together with a similar proposition in the case that κ≥8, we obtain a description of the boundary of a standard chordal SLE(κ) hull for κ>4, at a finite stopping...
We solve an optimal cost problem for a stochastic Navier-Stokes equation in space dimension 2 by proving existence and uniqueness of a smooth solution of the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
In this paper, we study one kind of stochastic recursive optimal control problem for the systems described by stochastic differential equations with delay (SDDE). In our framework, not only the dynamics of the systems but also the recursive utility depend on the past path segment of the state process in a general form. We give the dynamic programming principle for this kind of optimal control problems and show that the value function is the viscosity solution of the corresponding infinite dimensional...
This paper considers dynamic term structure models like the ones appearing in portfolio credit risk modelling or life insurance. We study general forward rate curves driven by infinitely many Brownian motions and an integer-valued random measure, generalizing existing approaches in the literature. A precise characterization of absence of arbitrage in such markets is given in terms of a suitable criterion for no asymptotic free lunch (NAFL). From this, we obtain drift conditions which are equivalent...