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Convex order and increasing convex order for McKean-Vlasov processes with common noise

Probability 2025-11-05 v2

Abstract

We establish results on the conditional and standard convex order, as well as the increasing convex order, for two processes X=(Xt)t[0,T] X = (X_t)_{t \in [0, T]} and Y=(Yt)t[0,T] Y = (Y_t)_{t \in [0, T]} , defined by the following McKean-Vlasov equations with common Brownian noise B0=(Bt0)t[0,T] B^0 = (B_t^0)_{t \in [0, T]} : dXt=b(t,Xt,L1(Xt))dt+σ(t,Xt,L1(Xt))dBt+σ0(t,L1(Xt))dBt0 dX_t=b(t, X_t, \mathcal{L}^1(X_t))d t+\sigma(t, X_t, \mathcal{L}^1(X_t))d B_t+\sigma^0 (t, \mathcal{L}^1(X_t))d B^0_t dYt=β(t,Yt,L1(Yt))dt+θ(t,Yt,L1(Yt))dBt+θ0(t,L1(Yt))dBt0,dY_t=\,\beta(t, Y_t, \mathcal{L}^1(Y_t\,))d t+\,\theta(t, Y_t\,, \mathcal{L}^1(Y_t\,))d B_t\,+\,\theta^0 (t, \mathcal{L}^1(Y_t\,))d B^0_t, where L1(Xt) \mathcal{L}^1(X_t) (respectively L1(Yt) \mathcal{L}^1(Y_t) ) denotes a version of the conditional distribution of Xt X_t (resp. Yt Y_t ) given B0 B^0 . These results extend those established for standard McKean-Vlasov equations in [Liu-Pag\`es, 2023] and [Liu-Pag\`es, 2021]. Under suitable conditions, for a (non-decreasing) convex functional FF on the path space with polynomial growth, we show E[F(X)B0]E[F(Y)B0] \mathbb{E}[F(X) | B^0] \leq \mathbb{E}[F(Y) | B^0] almost surely. Moreover, for a (non-decreasing) convex functional GG defined on the product space of paths and their marginal distributions, we establish E[G(X,(L1(Xt))t[0,T])B0]E[G(Y,(L1(Yt))t[0,T])B0]almost surely. \mathbb{E} \Big[\,G\big(X, (\mathcal{L}^1(X_t))_{t\in[0, T]}\big)\,\Big| \, B^0\,\Big]\leq \mathbb{E} \Big[\,G\big(Y, (\mathcal{L}^1(Y_t))_{t\in[0, T]}\big)\,\Big| \, B^0\,\Big] \quad \text{almost surely}. Similar convex order results are also established for the corresponding particle system. Finally, we explore applications of these results to stochastic control problems and to the interbank systemic risk model introduced in [Carmona-Fouque-Sun, 2015].

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@article{arxiv.2504.17576,
  title  = {Convex order and increasing convex order for McKean-Vlasov processes with common noise},
  author = {Armand Bernou and Théophile Le Gall and Yating Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.17576},
  year   = {2025}
}

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38 pages, 1 figure. Updated with new organization of the application sections. Comments are welcome !