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The Skorokhod Embedding Problem (SEP) is one of the classical problems in the study of stochastic processes, with applications in many different fields (cf.~ the surveys \cite{Ob04,Ho11}). Many of these applications have natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Mathias Beiglboeck , Alexander Cox , Martin Huesmann

Motivated by problems in behavioural finance, we provide two explicit constructions of a randomized stopping time which embeds a given centered distribution $\mu$ on integers into a simple symmetric random walk in a uniformly integrable…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Xuedong He , Sang Hu , Jan Obłój , Xunyu Zhou

The Skorokhod embedding problem is to represent a given probability as the distribution of Brownian motion at a chosen stopping time. Over the last 50 years this has become one of the important classical problems in probability theory and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Mathias Beiglboeck , Alexander M. G. Cox , Martin Huesmann

In this paper we consider a connection between the famous Skorohod embedding problem and the Shiryaev inverse problem for the first hitting time distribution of a Brownian motion: given a probability distribution, $F$, find a boundary such…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Sebastian Jaimungal , Alexander Kreinin , Angel Valov

We obtain bounds on the distribution of the maximum of a martingale with fixed marginals at finitely many intermediate times. The bounds are sharp and attained by a solution to $n$-marginal Skorokhod embedding problem in Ob{\l}\'oj and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Pierre Henry-Labordère , Jan Obłój , Peter Spoida , Nizar Touzi

We consider cost minimizing stopping time solutions to Skorokhod embedding problems, which deal with transporting a source probability measure to a given target measure through a stopped Brownian process. PDEs and a free boundary problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

We consider the problem of superhedging under volatility uncertainty for an investor allowed to dynamically trade the underlying asset, and statically trade European call options for all possible strikes with some given maturity. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-17 A. Galichon , P. Henry-Labordère , N. Touzi

We study the problem of stopping a Brownian motion at a given distribution $\nu$ while optimizing a reward function that depends on the (possibly randomized) stopping time and the Brownian motion. Our first result establishes that the set…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Mathias Beiglböck , Marcel Nutz , Florian Stebegg

We show an intimate connection between solutions of the Skorokhod Embedding Problem which are given as the first hitting time of a barrier and the concept of shadows in martingale optimal transport. More precisely, we show that a solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Martin Brückerhoff , Martin Huesmann

The planar Skorokhod embedding problem was first proposed and solved by R. Gross in 2019 [#gross2019]. Gross worked with probability distributions having finite second moment. In [#boudabra2019remarks, #Boudabra2020], the solutions extended…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Maher Boudabra

We provide a new probabilistic proof of the connection between Rost's solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem and a suitable family of optimal stopping problems for Brownian motion with finite time-horizon. In particular we use…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Tiziano De Angelis

The existence of global-in-time bounded martingale solutions to a general class of cross-diffusion systems with multiplicative Stratonovich noise is proved. The equations describe multicomponent systems from physics or biology with…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Gaurav Dhariwal , Florian Huber , Ansgar Jüngel , Christian Kuehn , Alexandra Neamtu

This paper examines the Root solution of the Skorohod embedding problem given full marginals on some compact time interval. Our results are obtained by limiting arguments based on finitely-many marginals Root solution of Cox, Obl\'oj and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Alexandre Richard , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

Given a L\'evy process $L$, we consider the so-called statistical Skorohod embedding problem of recovering the distribution of an independent random time $T$ based on i.i.d. sample from $L_{T}.$ Our approach is based on the genuine use of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Denis Belomestny , John Schoenmakers

It is known since Kellerer (1972) that for any process that is increasing for the convex order, or "peacock" as in Hirsch et al. 2011, there exist martingales with the same marginals laws. Nevertheless, there is no general constructive…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Damiano Brigo , Monique Jeanblanc , Frederic Vrins

A leveraged exchange traded fund (LETF) is an exchange traded fund that uses financial derivatives to amplify the price changes of a basket of goods. In this paper, we consider the robust hedging of European options on a LETF, finding…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-24 Alexander M. G. Cox , Sam M. Kinsley

We develop a class of pathwise inequalities of the form $H(B_t)\ge M_t+F(L_t)$, where $B_t$ is Brownian motion, $L_t$ its local time at zero and $M_t$ a local martingale. The concrete nature of the representation makes the inequality useful…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-02 A. M. G. Cox , David Hobson , Jan Obłój

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

We study stochastic delay differential equations (SDDE) where the coefficients depend on the moving averages of the state process. As a first contribution, we provide sufficient conditions under which a linear path functional of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Salvatore Federico , Peter Tankov

In this work, we address the problem of solving a series of underdetermined linear inverse problems subject to a sparsity constraint. We generalize the spike-and-slab prior distribution to encode a priori correlation of the support of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-19 Michael Riis Andersen , Aki Vehtari , Ole Winther , Lars Kai Hansen