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Constructing functions with prescribed pathwise quadratic variation

Probability 2019-07-02 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We construct rich vector spaces of continuous functions with prescribed curved or linear pathwise quadratic variations. We also construct a class of functions whose quadratic variation may depend in a local and nonlinear way on the function value. These functions can then be used as integrators in F\"ollmer's pathwise It\=o calculus. Our construction of the latter class of functions relies on an extension of the Doss--Sussman method to a class of nonlinear It\=o differential equations for the F\"ollmer integral. As an application, we provide a deterministic variant of the support theorem for diffusions. We also establish that many of the constructed functions are nowhere differentiable.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04678,
  title  = {Constructing functions with prescribed pathwise quadratic variation},
  author = {Yuliya Mishura and Alexander Schied},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04678},
  year   = {2019}
}
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