The Kolmogorov equation with time-measurable coefficients

dc.contributor.authorKovats, Jay
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-25T21:02:36Z
dc.date.available2020-11-25T21:02:36Z
dc.date.issued2003-07-13
dc.description.abstractUsing both probabilistic and classical analytic techniques, we investigate the parabolic Kolmogorov equation Ltv + ∂v/ ∂t ≡ 1/2αij (t)vxixj + bi(t)vxi - c(t)v + ƒ(t) + ∂v/ ∂t = 0 in HT : = (0, T) x Ed and its solutions when the coefficients are bounded Borel measurable functions of t. We show that the probabilistic solution v(t, x) defined in ĦT, is twice differentiable with respect to x, continuously in (t, x), once differentiable with respect to t, a.e. t ∈ [0, T) and satisfies the Kolmogorov equation Ltv + ∂v/ ∂t = 0 a.e. in ĦT. Our main tool will be the Aleksandrov-Busemann-Feller Theorem. We also examine the probabilistic solution to the fully nonlinear Bellman equation with time-measurable coefficients in the simple case b ≡ 0, c ≡ 0. We show that when the terminal data function is a paraboloid, the payoff function has a particularly simple form.
dc.description.departmentMathematics
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dc.format.extent14 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationKovats, J. (2003). The Kolmogorov equation with time-measurable coefficients. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2003</i>(77), pp. 1-14.
dc.identifier.issn1072-6691
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/13017
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSouthwest Texas State University, Department of Mathematics
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourceElectronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2003, San Marcos, Texas: Southwest Texas State University and University of North Texas.
dc.subjectDiffusion processes
dc.subjectKolmogorov equation
dc.subjectBellman equation
dc.titleThe Kolmogorov equation with time-measurable coefficients
dc.typeArticle

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