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A change of variable formula with It\^{o} correction term

Probability 2010-11-08 v4

Abstract

We consider the solution u(x,t)u(x,t) to a stochastic heat equation. For fixed xx, the process F(t)=u(x,t)F(t)=u(x,t) has a nontrivial quartic variation. It follows that FF is not a semimartingale, so a stochastic integral with respect to FF cannot be defined in the classical It\^{o} sense. We show that for sufficiently differentiable functions g(x,t)g(x,t), a stochastic integral g(F(t),t)dF(t)\int g(F(t),t)\,dF(t) exists as a limit of discrete, midpoint-style Riemann sums, where the limit is taken in distribution in the Skorokhod space of cadlag functions. Moreover, we show that this integral satisfies a change of variable formula with a correction term that is an ordinary It\^{o} integral with respect to a Brownian motion that is independent of FF.

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@article{arxiv.0802.3356,
  title  = {A change of variable formula with It\^{o} correction term},
  author = {Krzysztof Burdzy and Jason Swanson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3356},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP523 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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