Approximations of the Brownian rough path with applications to stochastic analysis

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Abstract: A geometric p-rough path can be seen to be a genuine path of finite p-variation with values in a Lie group equipped with a natural distance. The group and its distance lift (R^{d},+,0) and its Euclidean distance. This approach allows us to easily get a precise modulus of continuity for the Enhanced Brownian Motion (the Brownian Motion and its Levy Area). As a first application, extending an idea due to Millet & Sanz-Sole, we characterize the support of the Enhanced Brownian Motion (without relying on correlation inequalities). Secondly, we prove Schilder's theorem for this Enhanced Brownian Motion. As all results apply in Hoelder (and stronger) topologies, this extends recent work by Ledoux, Qian, Zhang (2002). Lyons' fine estimates in terms of control functions allow us to show that the Ito map is still continuous in the topologies we introduced. This provides new and simplified proofs of the Stroock-Varadhan support theorem and the Freidlin-Wentzell theory. It also provides a short proof of modulus of continuity for diffusion processes along old results by Baldi.


For a fixed real number \(p\in]2;3[\), a new presentation of the set \(G\Omega_p(\mathbb{R}^d)\) of geometric \(p\)-rough paths is proposed; denoting by \(G\) the free nilpotent group of step \(2\) over \(\mathbb{R}^d\), the authors equip \((G;\otimes)\) with a homogeneous, sub-additive norm, and characterise \(G\Omega_p(\mathbb{R}^d)\) as the closure of the set of all \(G\)-valued ``smooth paths under the \(p\)-variation metric. Firstly, this enables them to give a precise estimation for the modulus of continuity of the enhanced Brownian motion (EBM). Several topologies on \(G\Omega_p(\mathbb{R}^d)\) are considered, corresponding e.g. to ``modulus of continuity type norms, and the continuity of the Itô map is established for these finer topologies. The authors also establish the convergence (respective to these topologies) of some sequences of smooth rough paths to the EBM, using approximations obtained e.g. by conditioning along dyadic filtrations. A support theorem is then established for the law of the EBM, and Schilder's theorem for the EBM is also obtained as a consequence of the continuity of the Itô map; this improves earlier results of \textit{M. Ledoux, Z. Qian} and \textit{T. Zhang} [Stochastic Processes Appl. 102, No. 2, 265--283 (2002; Zbl 1075.60510)], in that the topologies under consideration are finer.




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