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On the weak approximation of a skew diffusion by an Euler-type scheme

Probability 2016-09-30 v1

Abstract

We study the weak approximation error of a skew diffusion with bounded measurable drift and H\"older diffusion coefficient by an Euler-type scheme, which consists of iteratively simulating skew Brownian motions with constant drift. We first establish two sided Gaussian bounds for the density of this approximation scheme. Then, a bound for the difference between the densities of the skew diffusion and its Euler approximation is obtained. Notably, the weak approximation error is shown to be of order hη/2h^{\eta/2}, where hh is the time step of the scheme, η\eta being the H\"older exponent of the diffusion coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.1609.09335,
  title  = {On the weak approximation of a skew diffusion by an Euler-type scheme},
  author = {Noufel Frikha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09335},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

27 pages, accepted under minor revision