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A Chen-Fliess approximation for diffusion functionals

Probability 2011-11-10 v2

Abstract

We show that an interesting class of functionals of stochastic differential equations can be approximated by a Chen-Fliess series of iterated stochastic integrals and give a L^{2} error estimate, thus generalizing the standard stochastic Taylor expansion. The coefficients in this series are given a very intuitive meaning by using functional derivatives, recently introduced by B. Dupire.

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@article{arxiv.1110.2481,
  title  = {A Chen-Fliess approximation for diffusion functionals},
  author = {Christian Litterer and Harald Oberhauser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.2481},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

extended introduction, references added, changed title, minor typos fixed

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