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We study a notion of local time for a continuous path, defined as a limit of suitable discrete quantities along a general sequence of partitions of the time interval. Our approach subsumes other existing definitions and agrees with the…
Modifying the discrete mechanics proposed by T.D. Lee, we construct a class of discrete classical Hamiltonian systems, in which time is one of the dynamical variables. This includes a toy model of time machines which can travel forward and…
We prove the existence of weak solutions of It\^o's stochastic time dependent equations with irregular diffusion and drift terms of Morrey spaces. Weak uniqueness (generally conditional) and a conjecture pertaining to strong solutions are…
We develop a general technique for proving convergence of repeated quantum interactions to the solution of a quantum stochastic differential equation. The wide applicability of the method is illustrated in a variety of examples. Our main…
The asymptotic variance is an important criterion to evaluate the performance of Markov chains, especially for the central limit theorems. We give the variational formulas for the asymptotic variance of discrete-time (non-reversible) Markov…
This work develops new results for stochastic approximation algorithms. The emphases are on treating algorithms and limits with discontinuities. The main ingredients include the use of differential inclusions, set-valued analysis, and…
In the first part of the paper we continue the study of solutions to Schr\"odinger equations with a time singularity in the dispersive relation and in the periodic setting. In the second we show that if the Schr\"odinger operator involves a…
We prove the solvability of It\^o stochastic equations with uniformly nondegenerate, bounded, measurable diffusion and drift in $L_{d+1}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1})$. Actually, the powers of summability of the drift in $x$ and $t$ could be different.…
We present existence and discrete-time approximation results on optimal control policies for continuous-time stochastic control problems under a variety of information structures. These include fully observed models, partially observed…
These are course notes on the application of SDEs to options pricing. The author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0739195.
This paper presents a collection of useful formulas of dynamic derivatives on time scales, systematically collected for reference purposes. As an application, we define trigonometric and hyperbolic functions on time scales in such a way the…
We refine stochastic calculus for symmetric Markov processes without using time reverse operators. Under some conditions on the jump functions of locally square integrable martingale additive functionals, we extend Nakao's divergence-like…
A study on the notion of covariant derivatives in flat and curved space-time via It\^o-Wiener processes, when subjected to stochastic processes, is presented. Going into details, there is an analysis of the following topics: (i) Besov…
We study an ordinary differential equation controlled by a stochastic process. We present results on existence and uniqueness of solutions, on associated local times (Trotter and Ray-Knight theorems), and on time and direction of…
The article is devoted to the mean-square approximation of iterated Ito and Stratonovich stochastic integrals in the context of the numerical integration of Ito stochastic differential equations. The expansion of iterated Ito stochastic…
A notion of implicit difference equation on a Lie groupoid is introduced and an algorithm for extracting the integrable part (backward or/and forward) is formulated. As an application, we prove that discrete Lagrangian dynamics on a Lie…
Motivated by the study of existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions to stochastic partial differential equations driven by jump noise, we prove It\^{o} isomorphisms for $L^p$-valued stochastic integrals with respect to a compensated…
In this paper, we investigate the numerical approximation of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivative. We introduce an explicit in time discretization of the Caputo derivative and a finite difference scheme for…
We obtain a decomposition of the call option price for a very general stochastic volatility diffusion model extending the decomposition obtained by E. Al\`os in [2] for the Heston model. We realize that a new term arises when the stock…
A description in terms of phase and amplitude variables is given, for nonlinear oscillators subject to white Gaussian noise described by It\^o stochastic differential equations. The stochastic differential equations derived for the…