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Unifying the Dynkin and Lebesgue-Stieltjes formulae

Probability 2017-11-22 v2

Abstract

We establish a local martingale MM associate with f(X,Y)f(X,Y) under some restrictions on ff, where YY is a process of bounded variation (on compact intervals) and either XX is a jump diffusion (a special case being a L\'evy process) or XX is some general (c\'adl\'ag metric space valued) Markov process. In the latter case ff is restricted to the form f(x,y)=k=1Kξk(x)ηk(y)f(x,y)=\sum_{k=1}^K\xi_k(x)\eta_k(y). This local martingale unifies both Dynkin's formula for Markov processes and the Lebesgue-Stieltjes integration (change of variable) formula for (right continuous) functions of bounded variation. For the jump diffusion case, when further relatively easily verifiable conditions are assumed then this local martingale becomes an L2L^2 martingale. Convergence of the product of this Martingale with some deterministic function (of time) to zero both in L2L^2 and a.s. is also considered and sufficient conditions for functions for which this happens are identified.

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@article{arxiv.1308.5795,
  title  = {Unifying the Dynkin and Lebesgue-Stieltjes formulae},
  author = {Offer Kella and Marc Yor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5795},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages