Decoupled mild solutions of path-dependent PDEs and Integro PDEs represented by BSDEs driven by cadlag martingales

july, 2020
Publication type:
Paper in peer-reviewed journals
Journal:
Potential Analysis., vol. 53, pp. 449-481
arXiv:
assets/images/icons/icon_arxiv.png 1804.08903
Keywords :
Decoupled mild solutions; martingale problem; cadlag martingale; path-dependent PDEs; backward stochastic differential equation; identification problem.
Abstract:
We focus on a class of path-dependent problems which include path-dependent PDEs and Integro PDEs (in short IPDEs), and their representation via BSDEs driven by a cadlag martingale. For those equations we introduce the notion of {\it decoupled mild solution} for which, under general assumptions, we study existence and uniqueness and its representation via the aforementioned BSDEs. This concept generalizes a similar notion introduced by the authors in recent papers in the framework of classical PDEs and IPDEs. For every initial condition $(s,\eta)$, where $s$ is an initial time and $\eta$ an initial path, the solution of such BSDE produces a couple of processes $(Y^{s,\eta},Z^{s,\eta})$. In the classical (Markovian or not) literature the function $u(s,\eta):= Y^{s,\eta}_s$ constitutes a viscosity type solution of an associated PDE (resp. IPDE); our approach allows not only to identify $u$ as the unique decoupled mild solution, but also to solve quite generally the so called {\it identification problem}, i.e. to also characterize the $(Z^{s,\eta})_{s,\eta}$ processes in term of a deterministic function $v$ associated to the (above decoupled mild) solution $u$.
BibTeX:
@article{Bar-Rus-2020,
    author={Adrien Barrasso and Francesco Russo },
    title={Decoupled mild solutions of path-dependent PDEs and Integro 
           PDEs represented by BSDEs driven by cadlag martingales },
    doi={10.1007/s11118-019-09775-x },
    journal={Potential Analysis. },
    year={2020 },
    month={7},
    volume={53 },
    pages={449--481},
}