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Expanding the ideas of the author's paper 'Nonexpansive maps and option pricing theory' (Kibernetica 34:6 (1998), 713-724) we develop a pure game-theoretic approach to option pricing, by-passing stochastic modeling. Risk neutral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Vassili Kolokoltsov

For the numerical solution of Dirichlet-type boundary value problems associated to nonlinear fractional differential equations of order $\alpha \in (1,2)$ that use Caputo derivatives, we suggest to employ shooting methods. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Kai Diethelm

Recently, the numerical solution of multi-frequency, highly-oscillatory Hamiltonian problems has been attacked by using Hamiltonian Boundary Value Methods (HBVMs) as spectral methods in time. When the problem derives from the space semi-…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro , Juan I. Montijano , Luis Ràndez

We study an optimization problem related to the approximation of given data by a linear combination of transformed modes. In the simplest case, the optimization problem reduces to a minimization problem well-studied in the context of proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Felix Black , Philipp Schulze , Benjamin Unger

In this paper, a class of high-order methods to numerically solve Functional Differential Equations with Piecewise Continuous Arguments (FDEPCAs) is discussed. The framework stems from the expansion of the vector field associated with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Gianmarco Gurioli , Weijie Wang , Xiaoqiang Yan

In this paper, we prove the existence of classical solutions to second boundary value prob- lems for generated prescribed Jacobian equations, as recently developed by the second author, thereby obtaining extensions of classical solvability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Feida Jiang , Neil S. Trudinger

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

We consider the primal and dual forms of the optimality conditions for PDE-contrained optimization problems arising in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics when specialized to the reaction-diffusion context. Starting with the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ramon Codina , Roberto Federico Ausas , Pedro Balbão Bazon , Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt

Transport phenomena play a vital role in various fields of science and engineering. In this work, exact solutions are derived for advection equations with integer- and fractional-order time derivatives and a constant time-delay in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Christopher N. Angstmann , Stuart-James M. Burney , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Zhuang Xu

We present a primal--dual memory efficient algorithm for solving a relaxed version of the general transportation problem. Our approach approximates the original cost function with a differentiable one that is solved as a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Mariano Rivera

We show how inter-asset dependence information derived from market prices of options can lead to improved model-free price bounds for multi-asset derivatives. Depending on the type of the traded option, we either extract correlation…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-09-26 Jonathan Ansari , Eva Lütkebohmert , Ariel Neufeld , Julian Sester

The calibration of volatility models from observable option prices is a fundamental problem in quantitative finance. The most common approach among industry practitioners is based on the celebrated Dupire's formula [6], which requires the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-25 Ivan Guo , Grégoire Loeper , Shiyi Wang

Market illiquidity, feedback effects, presence of transaction costs, risk from unprotected portfolio and other nonlinear effects in PDE based option pricing models can be described by solutions to the generalized Black-Scholes parabolic…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-25 Karol Duris , Shih-Hau Tan , Choi-Hong Lai , Daniel Sevcovic

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used in the mathematical modeling of natural phenomena and man made complex systems. In particular, parabolic PDEs are a fundamental tool to determine fair prices of financial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen , Philippe von Wurstemberger

In recent years, quantitative investment methods combined with artificial intelligence have attracted more and more attention from investors and researchers. Existing related methods based on the supervised learning are not very suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sihang Chen , Weiqi Luo , Chao Yu

In this paper an arbitrage strategy is constructed for the modified Black-Scholes model driven by fractional Brownian motion or by a time changed fractional Brownian motion, when the volatility is stochastic. This latter property allows the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Erhan Bayraktar , H. Vincent Poor

We present an algorithm to approximate the solutions to variational problems where set of admissible functions consists of convex functions. The main motivator behind this numerical method is estimating solutions to Adverse Selection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Ivar Ekeland , Santiago Moreno

We analyze the valuation partial differential equation for European contingent claims in a general framework of stochastic volatility models where the diffusion coefficients may grow faster than linearly and degenerate on the boundaries of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-13 Erhan Bayraktar , Constantinos Kardaras , Hao Xing

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

In this paper, the TF system of two-coupled Black-Scholes equations for pricing the convertible bonds is solved numerically by using the P1 and P2 finite elements with the inequality constraints approximated by the penalty method. The…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-26 Rakhymzhan Kazbek , Yogi Erlangga , Yerlan Amanbek , Dongming Wei