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We combine Stein's method with Malliavin calculus in order to obtain explicit bounds in the multidimensional normal approximation (in the Wasserstein distance) of functionals of Gaussian fields. Our results generalize and refine the main…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-19 Ivan Nourdin , Giovanni Peccati , Anthony Réveillac

Stein's method is a method of probability approximation which hinges on the solution of a functional equation. For normal approximation the functional equation is a first order differential equation. Malliavin calculus is an…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Louis H. Y. Chen

We study the problem of the existence and regularity of a probability density in an abstract framework based on a "balancing" with approximating absolutely continuous laws. Typically, the absolutely continuous property for the approximating…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Vlad Bally , Lucia Caramellino

We establish an explicit approximation formula for European put option prices within a general stochastic volatility model with time-dependent parameters. Our methodology is based on expansions of the mixing representation of the put option…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-07 Kaustav Das , Nicolas Langrené

Malliavin weight sampling (MWS) is a stochastic calculus technique for computing the derivatives of averaged system properties with respect to parameters in stochastic simulations, without perturbing the system's dynamics. It applies to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-31 Patrick B. Warren , Rosalind J. Allen

We use Malliavin operators in order to prove quantitative stable limit theorems on the Wiener space, where the target distribution is given by a possibly multidimensional mixture of Gaussian distributions. Our findings refine and generalize…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Ivan Nourdin , David Nualart , Giovanni Peccati

By using the mirror coupling for solutions of SDEs driven by pure jump L\'evy processes, we extend some transportation and concentration inequalities, which were previously known only in the case where the coefficients in the equation…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Mateusz B. Majka

In this article, we give some existence and smoothness results for the law of the solution to a stochastic heat equation driven by a finite dimensional fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$. Our results rely on recent…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Aurélien Deya , Samy Tindel

The extremely useful method of Malliavin calculus has not yet gained adequate popularity because of the complicated analytic apparatus of this method. The author attempts here to propose a simplified algebraic formalism similar to Malliavin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Peter B. Lerner

In this article we introduce a new method for the construction of unique strong solutions of a larger class of stochastic delay equations driven by a discontinuous drift vector field and a Wiener process. The results obtained in this paper…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-22 D. Baños , H. H. Haferkorn , F. Proske

In this paper, we develop a novel method based on Malliavin calculus to find an approximation for the convexity adjustment for various classical interest rate products. Malliavin calculus provides a simple way to get a template for the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-08-28 David García-Lorite , Raul Merino

Langevin dynamics has found a large number of applications in sampling, optimization and estimation. Preconditioning the gradient in the dynamics with the covariance - an idea that originated in literature related to solving estimation and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Axel Ringh , Akash Sharma

In this paper we study general nonlinear stochastic differential equations, where the usual Brownian motion is replaced by a L\'evy process. We also suppose that the coefficient multiplying the increments of this process is merely Lipschitz…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-19 Benjamin Jourdain , Sylvie Méléard , Wojbor Woyczynski

In this paper we show the H\"ormander hypoelliptic theorem for nonlocal operators by a purely probabilistic method: the Malliavin calculus. Roughly speaking, under general H\"ormander's Lie bracket conditions, we show the regularization…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Zimo Hao , Xuhui Peng , Xicheng Zhang

Gradient estimates are derived, for the first time, for the semigroup associated to a class of stochastic differential equations driven by multiplicative L\'evy noise. In particular, the estimates are sharp for $\alpha$-stable type noises.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Feng-Yu Wang , Lihu Xu , Xicheng Zhang

We prove that the solution of the backward stochastic differential equation with terminal singularity has a Malliavin derivative, which is the limit of the derivative of the approximating sequence. We also provide the asymptotic behavior of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Alexandre Popier , Laurent Denis , Dorian Cacitti-Holland

We apply the techniques of stochastic integration with respect to fractional Brownian motion and the theory of regularity and supremum estimation for stochastic processes to study the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for the drift…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-08-22 Ciprian A. Tudor , Frederi G. Viens

We address the optimal control of stochastic Volterra integral equations with delay through the lens of Hida-Malliavin calculus. We show that the corresponding adjoint processes satisfy an anticipated backward stochastic Volterra integral…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Roméo Kouassi Konan , Auguste Aman

In previous works, we have developed a new Malliavin calculus on the Poisson space based on the lent particle formula. The aim of this work is to prove that, on the Wiener space for the standard Ornstein-Uhlenbeck structure, we also have…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Nicolas Bouleau , Laurent Denis

We show how to find the physical Langevin equation describing the trajectories of particles undergoing collisionless stochastic acceleration. These stochastic differential equations retain not only one-, but two-particle statistics, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 J. W. Burby , A. I. Zhmoginov , H. Qin