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A stochastic approach to a new type of parabolic variational inequalities

Probability 2012-03-26 v2

Abstract

We study the following quasilinear partial differential equation with two subdifferential operators: us(s,x)+(Lu)(s,x,u(s,x),(u(s,x))σ(s,x,u(s,x)))+f(s,x,u(s,x),(u(s,x))σ(s,x,u(s,x)))φ(u(s,x))+<ψ(x),u(s,x)>,(s,x)[0,T]×Domψ,u(T,x)=g(x),xDomψ.{\frac{\partial u}{\partial s}(s,x)} + (\mathcal{L}u)(s,x,u(s,x),(\nabla u(s,x))^\ast\sigma(s,x,u(s,x))) + f(s,x,u(s,x),(\nabla u(s,x))^\ast\sigma(s,x,u(s,x))) \in \partial\varphi(u(s,x)) + <\partial\psi(x),\nabla u(s,x)>, (s,x) \in[0,T]\times Dom\psi, u(T,x) =g(x),\quad x\in Dom\psi. where for uC1,2([0,T]×Domψ)u\in C^{1,2}\big([0,T]\times Dom\psi\big) and (s,x,y,z)[0,T]×Domψ×Domφ×R1×d(s,x,y,z)\in [0,T]\times Dom\psi\times Dom\varphi\times\mathbb{R}^{1\times d}, (Lu)(s,x,y,z):=1/2i,j=1n(σσ)i,j(s,x,y)2uxixj(s,x)+i=1nbi(s,x,y,z)uxi(s,x).(\mathcal{L}u)(s,x,y,z) := 1/2\sum_{i,j=1}^n (\sigma\sigma^\ast)_{i,j}(s,x,y)\frac{\partial^2u}{\partial x_{i}\partial x_{j}}(s,x) +\sum_{i=1}^n b_i(s,x,y,z)\frac{\partial u}{\partial x_i}(s,x). The operator ψ\partial\psi (resp. φ\partial\varphi) is the subdifferential of the convex lower semicontinuous function ψ:Rn(,+]\psi:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to (-\infty,+\infty] (resp. φ:R(,+]\varphi:\mathbb{R}\to(-\infty,+\infty]). We define the viscosity solution for such kind of partial differential equations and prove the uniqueness of the viscosity solutions when σ\sigma does not depend on yy. To prove the existence of a viscosity solution, a stochastic representation formula of Feymann-Kac type will be developed. For this end, we investigate a fully coupled forward-backward stochastic variational inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4840,
  title  = {A stochastic approach to a new type of parabolic variational inequalities},
  author = {Tianyang Nie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4840},
  year   = {2012}
}

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