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The paper is devoted to the construction of a probabilistic particle algorithm. This is related to nonlin-ear forward Feynman-Kac type equation, which represents the solution of a nonconservative semilinear parabolic Partial Differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Anthony Le Cavil , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

We propose an approximation scheme for a class of semilinear parabolic equations that are convex and coercive in their gradients. Such equations arise often in pricing and portfolio management in incomplete markets and, more broadly, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Shuo Huang , Gechun Liang , Thaleia Zariphopoulou

We are interested in stochastic control problems coming from mathematical finance and, in particular, related to model uncertainty, where the uncertainty affects both volatility and intensity. This kind of stochastic control problems is…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Sébastien Choukroun , Andrea Cosso

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

We prove existence of weak solutions to the obstacle problem for semilinear wave equations (including the fractional case) by using a suitable approximating scheme in the spirit of minimizing movements. This extends the results in [9],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le , Matteo Novaga , Giandomenico Orlandi

We propose a new deep learning algorithm for solving high-dimensional parabolic integro-differential equations (PIDEs) and forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps (FBSDEJs). This novel algorithm can be viewed as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Wansheng Wang , Jiangtao Pan , Jie Wang , Zaijun Ye

A complex notion of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) is proposed in this paper to give a probabilistic interpretation for linear first order complex partial differential equation (PDE). By the uniqueness and existence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Yuhong Xu

Using purely probabilistic methods, we prove the existence and the uniqueness of solutions fora system of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with measurable, possibly discontinuous coefficients. As a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Kihun Nam , Yunxi Xu

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with jumps, subject to an additional global constraint involving all the components of the solution. We study the existence and uniqueness of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Romuald Elie , Idris Kharroubi

This work presents a numerical analysis of computing transition states of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) via the index-1 saddle dynamics, or equivalently, the gentlest ascent dynamics. To establish clear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Lei Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng , Shangqin Zhu

We consider various versions of the obstacle and thin-obstacle problems, we interpret them as variational inequalities, with non-smooth constraint, and prove that they satisfy a new constrained Lojasiewicz inequality. The difficulty lies in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Maria Colombo , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We consider the problem of viscosity solution of integro-partial differential equation(IPDE in short) with one obstacle via the solution of reflected backward stochastic differential equations(RBSDE in short) with jumps. We show existence…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Lamine Sylla

We study the regularity of solutions to the obstacle problem for the parabolic biharmonic equation. We analyze the problem via an implicit time discretization, and we prove some regularity properties of the solution.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Matteo Novaga , Shinya Okabe

This paper concerns the numerical valuation of swing options with discrete action times under a linear two-factor mean-reverting model with jumps. The resulting sequence of two-dimensional partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Mustapha Regragui , Karel J. in 't Hout , Michèle Vanmaele , Fred Espen Benth

In this paper, we prove that there exists a unique solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for a general class of semilinear second order elliptic partial differential equations. Our approach is probabilistic. The theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Tusheng Zhang

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) have a wide range of applications. In particular, high-dimensional PDEs with gradient-dependent nonlinearities appear often in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Martin Hutzenthaler , Thomas Kruse

Simulations of the dynamics generated by partial differential equations (PDEs) provide approximate, numerical solutions to initial value problems. Such simulations are ubiquitous in scientific computing, but the correctness of the results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Maxime Breden

This note is devoted to continuity results of the time derivative of the solution to the one-dimensional parabolic obstacle problem with variable coefficients. It applies to the smooth fit principle in numerical analysis and in financial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Adrien Blanchet , Jean Dolbeault , Regis Monneau

The purpose of this paper is to analyze solutions of a non-local nonlinear partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) in multidimensional spaces. Such class of PIDE often arises in financial modeling. We employ the theory of abstract…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-22 Daniel Sevcovic , Cyril Izuchukwu Udeani

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations with obstacle (OSPDEs in short) in degenerate case. Using De Giorgi's iteration, we deduce the $L^p-$estimates for the time-space…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang