Related papers: McKean-Vlasov SDEs in nonlinear filtering
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A McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation subject to killing associated to a regularised non-conservative and path-dependent nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation is studied. The existence and pathwise uniqueness of a…
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We consider the numerical approximation of the filtering problem in high dimensions, that is, when the hidden state lies in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d$ large. For low dimensional problems, one of the most popular numerical procedures for…
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This paper studies the numerical methods to approximate the solutions for a sort of McKean-Vlasov neutral stochastic differential delay equations (MV-NSDDEs) that the growth of the drift coefficients is super-linear. First, We obtain that…