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Two novel numerical estimators are proposed for solving forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) appearing in the Feynman-Kac representation of the value function in stochastic optimal control problems. In contrast to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Kelsey P. Hawkins , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

A representation formula for solutions of stochastic partial differential equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions is proved. The scope of our setting is wide enough to cover the general situation when the backward characteristics that…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Máté Gerencsér , István Gyöngy

In this paper we show the existence and form uniqueness of a solution for multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations driven by a multidimensional L\'{e}vy process with moments of all orders. The results are important from a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Jianzhong Lin

In this paper we investigate BSDEs where the driver contains a distributional term (in the sense of generalised functions) and derive general Feynman-Kac formulae related to these BSDEs. We introduce an integral operator to give sense to…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Elena Issoglio , Francesco Russo

Functionals of Brownian motion have diverse applications in physics, mathematics, and other fields. The probability density function (PDF) of Brownian functionals satisfies the Feynman-Kac formula, which is a Schrodinger equation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-25 Shai Carmi , Lior Turgeman , Eli Barkai

We consider a stochastic functional delay differential equation, namely an equation whose evolution depends on its past history as well as on its present state, driven by a pure diffusive component plus a pure jump Poisson compensated…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Francesco Cordoni , Luca Di Persio , Immacolata Oliva

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

This paper presents a novel approach to numerically solve stochastic differential games for nonlinear systems. The proposed approach relies on the nonlinear Feynman-Kac theorem that establishes a connection between parabolic deterministic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Ziyi Wang , Keuntaek Lee , Marcus A. Pereira , Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

For the particles undergoing the anomalous diffusion with different waiting time distributions for different internal states, we derive the Fokker-Planck and Feymann-Kac equations, respectively, describing positions of the particles and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

The Feynman-Kac formula provides a way to understand solutions to elliptic partial differential equations in terms of expectations of continuous time Markov processes. This connection allows for the creation of numerical schemes for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Cameron Martin , Hongyuan Zhang , Julia Costacurta , Mihai Nica , Adam R Stinchcombe

We aim to provide a Feynman-Kac type representation for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, in terms of forward backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) with a simulatable forward process. For this purpose, we introduce a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham

This paper provides a theoretical framework of deriving the forward and backward Feynman-Kac equations for the distribution of functionals of the path of a particle undergoing both diffusion and chemical reaction. Very general forms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-20 Ru Hou , Weihua Deng

We extend the unified kernel framework for transport equations and Koopman eigenfunctions, developed in previous work by the authors for deterministic systems, to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). In the deterministic setting, three…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Boumediene Hamzi , Houman Owhadi , Umesh Vaidya

Stochastic mathematical models are essential tools for understanding and predicting complex phenomena. The purpose of this work is to study the exit times of a stochastic dynamical system-specifically, the mean exit time and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Eric José Ávila-Vales , José Villa-Morales

We propose a methodology to address two analysis problems concerning complex systems, namely bounding state functionals of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and verifying set avoidance of systems described by partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Giorgio Valmorbida , Antonis Papachristodoulou

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

Although having been developed for more than two decades, the theory of forward backward stochastic differential equations is still far from complete. In this paper, we take one step back and investigate the formulation of FBSDEs. Motivated…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Haiyang Wang , Jianfeng Zhang

The fluctuations of dynamical functionals such as the empirical density and current as well as heat, work and generalized currents in stochastic thermodynamics are usually studied within the Feynman-Kac tilting formalism, which in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-06 Cai Dieball , Aljaž Godec

Fractional differential equations (FDEs) are an extension of the theory of fractional calculus. However, due to the difficulty in finding analytical solutions, there have not been extensive applications of FDEs until recent decades. With…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Nirupama Bhattacharya , Gabriel A. Silva

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