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Denseness of certain smooth L\'evy functionals in $\DD_{1,2}$

Probability 2008-06-02 v1

Abstract

The Malliavin derivative for a L\'evy process (Xt)(X_t) can be defined on the space \DD1,2\DD_{1,2} using a chaos expansion or in the case of a pure jump process also via an increment quotient operator \cite{sole-utzet-vives}. In this paper we define the Malliavin derivative operator \D\D on the class S\mathcal{S} of smooth random variables f(Xt1,...,Xtn),f(X_{t_1}, ..., X_{t_n}), where ff is a smooth function with compact support. We show that the closure of L2(\Om)S\DL2(\m\mass)L_2(\Om) \supseteq \mathcal{S} \stackrel{\D}{\to} L_2(\m\otimes \mass) yields to the space \DD1,2.\DD_{1,2}. As an application we conclude that Lipschitz functions map from \DD1,2\DD_{1,2} into \DD1,2.\DD_{1,2}.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4704,
  title  = {Denseness of certain smooth L\'evy functionals in $\DD_{1,2}$},
  author = {Christel Geiss and Eija Laukkarinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4704},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages

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