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Duality in Robust Utility Maximization with Unbounded Claim via a Robust Extension of Rockafellar's Theorem

Computational Finance 2015-03-17 v1 Optimization and Control Probability Portfolio Management

Abstract

We study the convex duality method for robust utility maximization in the presence of a random endowment. When the underlying price process is a locally bounded semimartingale, we show that the fundamental duality relation holds true for a wide class of utility functions on the whole real line and unbounded random endowment. To obtain this duality, we prove a robust version of Rockafellar's theorem on convex integral functionals and apply Fenchel's general duality theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1101.2968,
  title  = {Duality in Robust Utility Maximization with Unbounded Claim via a Robust Extension of Rockafellar's Theorem},
  author = {Keita Owari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2968},
  year   = {2015}
}