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Penalty Method for Reflected Diffusions on the Half-Line

Probability 2016-10-17 v5

Abstract

Consider a reflected diffusion on the positive half-line. We approximate it by solutions of stochastic differential equations using the penalty method: We emulate the "hard barrier" of reflection by a "soft barrier" of a large drift coefficient, which compells the diffusion to return to the positive half-line. The main tool of the proof is convergence of scale functions.

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@article{arxiv.1509.01776,
  title  = {Penalty Method for Reflected Diffusions on the Half-Line},
  author = {Cameron Bruggeman and Andrey Sarantsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01776},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages. Keywords: Stochastic differential equation, reflected diffusion, reflected Brownian motion, weak convergence, scale function, penalty method

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