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Existence of a Fundamental Solution of Partial Differential Equations associated to Asian Options

Analysis of PDEs 2021-06-21 v1

Abstract

We prove the existence and uniqueness of the fundamental solution for Kolmogorov operators associated to some stochastic processes, that arise in the Black & Scholes setting for the pricing problem relevant to path dependent options. We improve previous results in that we provide a closed form expression for the solution of the Cauchy problem under weak regularity assumptions on the coefficients of the differential operator. Our method is based on a limiting procedure, whose convergence relies on some barrier arguments and uniform a priori estimates recently discovered.

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@article{arxiv.2007.09037,
  title  = {Existence of a Fundamental Solution of Partial Differential Equations associated to Asian Options},
  author = {Francesca Anceschi and Silvia Muzzioli and Sergio Polidoro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09037},
  year   = {2021}
}

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