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Path-dependent It\^o formulas under finite $(p,q)$-variation regularity

Probability 2015-05-19 v2

Abstract

In this work, we establish pathwise functional It\^o formulas for non-smooth functionals of real-valued continuous semimartingales. Under finite (p,q)(p,q)-variation regularity assumptions in the sense of two-dimensional Young integration theory, we establish a pathwise local-time decomposition Ft(Xt)=F0(X0)+0thFs(Xs)ds+0twFs(Xs)dX(s)12+0t(xwFs)(xXs)d(s,x)x(s).F_t(X_t) = F_0(X_0)+ \int_0^t\nabla^hF_s(X_s)ds + \int_0^t\nabla^wF_s(X_s)dX(s) - \frac{1}{2}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}\int_0^t(\nabla^w_xF_s)(^{x}X_s)d_{(s,x)}\ell^x(s). Here, Xt={X(s);0st}X_t= \{X(s); 0\le s\le t\} is the continuous semimartingale path up to time t[0,T]t\in [0,T], h\nabla^h is the horizontal derivative, (xwFs)(xXs)(\nabla^w_x F_s)(^{x}X_s) is a weak derivative of FF with respect to the terminal value xx of the modified path xXs^{x}X_s and wFs(Xs)=(xwFs)(xXs)x=X(s)\nabla^w F_s(X_s) = (\nabla^w_x F_s)(^{x} X_s)|_{x=X(s)}. The double integral is interpreted as a space-time 2D-Young integral with differential d(s,x)x(s)d_{(s,x)}\ell^x(s), where \ell is the local-time of XX. Under less restrictive joint variation assumptions on (xwFt)(xXt)(\nabla^w_x F_t)(^{x} X_t), functional It\^o formulas are established when XX is a stable symmetric process. Singular cases when x(xwFt)(xXt)x\mapsto (\nabla^w_x F_t)(^{x}X_t) is smooth off random bounded variation curves are also discussed. The results of this paper extend previous change of variable formulas in Cont and Fourni\'e and also Peskir, Feng and Zhao and Elworhty, Truman and Zhao in the context of path-dependent functionals. In particular, we provide a pathwise path-dependent version of the classical F\"{o}llmer-Protter-Shiryaev formula for continuous semimartingales.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.00879,
  title  = {Path-dependent It\^o formulas under finite $(p,q)$-variation regularity},
  author = {Alberto Ohashi and Evelina Shamarova and Nikolai N. Shamarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00879},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Several typos were corrected

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