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Diffusion Approximations of Markovian Solutions to Discontinuous ODEs

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2021-07-06 v1 Probability

Abstract

In a companion paper, the authors have characterized all deterministic semigroups, and all Markov semigroups, whose trajectories are Carathe'odory solutions to a given ODE x'=f(x), with f possibly discontinuous. The present paper establishes two approximation results. Namely, every deterministic semigroup can be obtained as the pointwise limit of the flows generated by a sequence of ODEs $x'=f_n(x) with smooth right hand sides. Moreover, every Markov semigroup can be obtained as limit of a sequence of diffusion processes with smooth drifts and with diffusion coefficients approaching zero.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01961,
  title  = {Diffusion Approximations of Markovian Solutions to Discontinuous ODEs},
  author = {Alberto Bressan and Marco Mazzola and Khai T. Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01961},
  year   = {2021}
}

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38 pages

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