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Nonstandard Martingales, Markov Chains and the Heat Equation

Probability 2017-04-20 v1

Abstract

We construct a nonstandard martingale from a discrete Markov chain. This is shown to be useful for solving the heat equation with a non smooth initial condition. We show that the nonstandard solution to the heat equation with a smooth initial condition specialises to the classical solution.

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@article{arxiv.1704.05530,
  title  = {Nonstandard Martingales, Markov Chains and the Heat Equation},
  author = {Tristram de Piro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05530},
  year   = {2017}
}