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In this paper, we study backward stochastic differential equations driven by a G-Brownian motion. The solution of such new type of BSDE is a triple (Y,Z,K) where K is a decreasing G-martingale. Under a Lipschitz condition for generator f…
State-space models provide an important body of techniques for analyzing time-series, but their use requires estimating unobserved states. The optimal estimate of the state is its conditional expectation given the observation histories, and…
Developing efficient and stable approximations for high dimensional PDEs is of key importance for numerous applications. The language of Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDE), with its nonlinear Feynman-Kac formula,…
In Bayesian statistics, a continuity property of the posterior distribution with respect to the observable variable is crucial as it expresses well-posedness, i.e., stability with respect to errors in the measurement of data. Essentially,…
Stability results for extremum seeking control in $\mathbb{R}^n$ have predominantly been restricted to local or, at best, semi-global practical stability. Extending semi-global stability results of extremum-seeking systems to unbounded sets…
Recently, Hairer et. al (2012) showed that there exist SDEs with infinitely often differentiable and globally bounded coefficient functions whose solutions fail to be locally Lipschitz continuous in the strong L^p-sense with respect to the…
Backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) belong nowadays to the most frequently studied equations in stochastic analysis and computational stochastics. In this paper we prove that Picard iterations of BSDEs with globally Lipschitz…
In a Bayesian setting, inverse problems and uncertainty quantification (UQ) --- the propagation of uncertainty through a computational (forward) model --- are strongly connected. In the form of conditional expectation the Bayesian update…
We provide adaptive inference methods, based on $\ell_1$ regularization, for regular (semi-parametric) and non-regular (nonparametric) linear functionals of the conditional expectation function. Examples of regular functionals include…
This paper develops a new framework for indirect statistical inference with guaranteed necessity and sufficiency, applicable to continuous random variables. We prove that when comparing exponentially transformed order statistics from an…
This paper focuses on the study of infinite horizon fully coupled nonlinear forward-backward stochastic difference equations (FBS$\bigtriangleup$Es). Firstly, we establish a pair of priori estimates for the solutions to forward stochastic…
In this paper, we first establish the reflected backward stochastic difference equations with finite state (FS-RBSDEs for short). Then we explore the Existence and Uniqueness Theorem as well as the Comparison Theorem by "one step" method.…
In this paper, we study the well-posedness of backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs), both with and without reflection, under weak conditions. First, when the generator $f$ is of general growth in $y$ and linear growth…
In this paper, we investigate the distributions of random couples $(X,Y)$ with $X$ real-valued such that any non-negative integrable random variable $f(X)$ can be represented as a conditional expectation, $f(X)=\mathbb{E}[g(Y)|X]$, for some…
We study a class of optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations of monotone type under certain coercivity and linear growth conditions. We give first order necessary conditions of optimality. A stochastic Pontryagin…
In this paper, we present a refined approach to establish a global Lipschitz stability for an inverse source problem concerning the determination of forcing terms in the wave equation with mixed boundary conditions. It consists of boundary…
We constructed the representation of contextual probabilistic dynamics in the complex Hilbert space. Thus dynamics of the wave function can be considered as Hilbert space projections of realistic dynamics in a ``prespace''. The basic…
We consider a parabolic stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) on $[0\,,1]$ that is forced with multiplicative space-time white noise with a bounded and Lipschitz diffusion coefficient and a drift coefficient that is locally…
In this paper we consider the continuous--time nonlinear filtering problem, which has an infinite--dimensional solution in general, as proved by Chaleyat--Maurel and Michel. There are few examples of nonlinear systems for which the optimal…