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Stochastic Differential Equations with Discontinuous Diffusions

arXiv:1908.03183

summary

The paper investigates one-dimensional stochastic differential equations driven by Hölder continuous processes, allowing the diffusion coefficient to have discontinuities, and includes cases like fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter greater than 1/2.

Abstract

We study one-dimensional stochastic differential equations of form $dX_t = σ(X_t)dY_t$, where $Y$ is a suitable Hölder continuous driver such as the fractional Brownian motion $B^H$ with $H>\frac12$. The innovative aspect of the present paper lies in the assumptions on diffusion coefficients $σ$ for which we assume very mild conditions. In particular, we allow $σ$ to have discontinuities, and as such our results can be applied to study equations with discontinuous diffusions.

Topics & keywords

#stochastic differential equations#discontinuous diffusion#fractional brownian motion#holder continuity#one-dimensional SDEsstochastic differential equationdiffusion coefficientdiscontinuityfractional Brownian motionHölder continuous driver