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On the one-sided Tanaka equation with drift

Probability 2011-08-23 v1

Abstract

We study questions of existence and uniqueness of weak and strong solutions for a one-sided Tanaka equation with constant drift \lambda. We observe a dichotomy in terms of the values of the drift parameter: for \lambda\leq 0, there exists a strong solution which is pathwise unique, thus also unique in distribution; whereas for \lambda>0, the equation has a unique in distribution weak solution, but no strong solution (and not even a weak solution that spends zero time at the origin). We also show that strength and pathwise uniqueness are restored to the equation via suitable "Brownian perturbations".

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@article{arxiv.1108.4069,
  title  = {On the one-sided Tanaka equation with drift},
  author = {Ioannis Karatzas and Albert N. Shiryaev and Mykhaylo Shkolnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4069},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages

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