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We present a numerical framework for approximating the $\mu$-domain in the planar Skorokhod embedding problem PSEP, recently introduced in \cite{gross2019}. We show that under weak convergence of a sequence of probability measures…
We provide a complete characterisation of the Root solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem (SEP) by means of an optimal stopping formulation. Our methods are purely probabilistic and the analysis relies on a tailored time-reversal…
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We make a rigorous analysis of the existence and characterization of the free boundary related to the optimal stopping problem that maximizes the mean of an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck bridge. The result includes the Brownian bridge problem as a…
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It is known that the Azema-Yor solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem maximizes the law of the running maximum of an uniformly integrable martingale with given terminal value distribution. Recently this optimality property has been…
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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…
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We revisit work of Rost, Dupire and Cox--Wang on connections between Root's solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem and obstacle problems. We develop an approach based on viscosity sub- and supersolutions and an accompanying comparison…
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