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Markovian projections for functionals of It\^o semimartingales with jumps

Probability 2026-05-26 v2 Mathematical Finance

Abstract

Given an It\^o semimartingale XX, its Markovian projection is an It\^o semimartingale X^\widehat{X}, with Markovian differential characteristics, that matches the one-dimensional marginal laws of XX. One may even require certain functionals of the two processes to have the same fixed-time marginals, at the cost of enhancing the differential characteristics of X^\widehat{X} but still in a Markovian sense. In the continuous case, the definitive result on existence of Markovian projections was obtained by Brunick and Shreve~\cite{MR3098443}. In this paper, we extend their result to the fully general setting of It\^o semimartingales with jumps.

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@article{arxiv.2506.00762,
  title  = {Markovian projections for functionals of It\^o semimartingales with jumps},
  author = {Martin Larsson and Shukun Long},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00762},
  year   = {2026}
}