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This paper proves the existence of viscosity solutions of path dependent semilinear PDEs via Perron's method, i.e. via showing that the supremum of viscosity subsolutions is a viscosity solution. We use the notion of viscosity solutions…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Zhenjie Ren

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for fully nonlinear second order path-dependent partial differential equations in the spirit of [Zhou, Ann. Appl. Probab., 33 (2023), 5564-5612]. We prove the existence,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Shanjian Tang , Jianjun Zhou

We generalize the algorithm for semi-linear parabolic PDEs in Henry-Labord\`ere (2012) to the non-Markovian case for a class of Backward SDEs (BSDEs). By simulating the branching process, the algorithm does not need any backward regression.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Pierre Henry-Labordere , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

The classical Feynman-Kac identity represents solutions of linear partial differential equations in terms of stochastic differential euqations. This representation has been generalized to nonlinear partial differential equations on the one…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Martin Hutzenthaler , Katharina Pohl

We study fully nonlinear second-order (forward) stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). They can also be viewed as forward path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs) and will be treated as rough PDEs (RPDEs) under a unified framework. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Rainer Buckdahn , Christian Keller , Jin Ma , Jianfeng Zhang

In this paper, a class of non-Markovian forward-backward doubly stochastic systems is studied. By using the technique of functional It\^o (or path-dependent) calculus, the relationship between the systems and related path-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Yufeng Shi , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

The classical Feynman-Kac identity builds a bridge between stochastic analysis and partial differential equations (PDEs) by providing stochastic representations for classical solutions of linear Kolmogorov PDEs. This opens the door for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Christian Beck , Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen

In this article, we adapt the definition of viscosity solutions to the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear path-dependent PDEs with data uniformly continuous in $(t,\omega)$, and generator Lipschitz continuous in $(y,z,\gamma)$. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Ibrahim Ekren

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations posed on the space of nonnegative finite measures, thereby extending recent results for PDEs defined on the Wasserstein space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ibrahim Ekren , Xihao He , Tianxu Lan , Xiaolu Tan

We use Perron's method to construct viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear degenerate parabolic pathwise (rough) partial differential equations. This provides an intrinsic method for proving the existence of solutions that relies only on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Benjamin Seeger

This paper is concerned with the relationship between forward-backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (FBSVIEs, for short) and a system of (non-local in time) path dependent partial differential equations (PPDEs, for short). Due to…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong , Jianfeng Zhang

It is well known that for solutions of semi-linear parabolic PDEs, there are equivalent probabilistic interpretations, which yields the so called nonlinear Feymman-Kac formula. By adopting such formula, we consider in this work a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Yuanyuan Siu , Weidong Zhao , Tao Zhou

We study a class of linear parabolic path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs) defined on the space of c\`adl\`ag paths $x \in D([0,T])$, in which the coefficient functions at time $t$ depend on $x(t)$ and $\int_{0}^{t}x(s)dA_{s}$, for some…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

In the 2nd version of this note we introduce the notion of viscosity solution for a type of fully nonlinear parabolic path-dependent partial differential equations (P-PDE). We then prove the comparison theorem (or maximum principle) of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Shige Peng

This paper introduces the path derivatives, in the spirit of Dupire's functional It\^o calculus, for the controlled paths in the rough path theory with possibly non-geometric rough paths. The theory allows us to deal with rough integration…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Christian Keller , Jianfeng Zhang

We extend the results of the FBSDE theory in order to construct a probabilistic representation of a viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem for a system of quasilinear parabolic equations. We derive a BSDE associated with a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Ya. I. Belopolskaya

In this paper we introduce a multilevel Picard approximation algorithm for general semilinear parabolic PDEs with gradient-dependent nonlinearities whose coefficient functions do not need to be constant. We also provide a full convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Ariel Neufeld , Sizhou Wu

The master equation is a type of PDE whose state variable involves the distribution of certain underlying state process. It is a powerful tool for studying the limit behavior of large interacting systems, including mean field games and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Cong Wu , Jianfeng Zhang

We show the existence and uniqueness of a continuous viscosity solution of a system of partial differential equations (PDEs for short) without assuming the usual monotonicity conditions on the driver function as in Hamad\`ene and Morlais's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Said Hamadène , Mohamed Mnif , Sarah Neffati

In this paper, we introduce a type of path-dependent quasilinear (parabolic) partial differential equations in which the (continuous) paths on an interval [0,t] becomes the basic variables in the place of classical variables (t,x). This new…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Shige Peng , Falei Wang