Variational calculation of Laplace transforms via entropy on Wiener space and applications

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Abstract: Let (W,H,mu) be the classical Wiener space where H is the Cameron-Martin space which consists of the primitives of the elements of L2([0,1],,dt)otimesRd, we denote by La2(mu,H) the equivalence classes w.r.t. dtimesdmu whose Lebesgue densities sodotu(s,w) are almost surely adapted to the canonical Brownian filtration. If f is a Wiener functional s.t. frac1E[ef]efdmu is of finite relative entropy w.r.t. mu, we prove that �eaa J_star&=& infleft(E_muleft[fcirc U+half |u|_H^2 ight]: uin L_a^2(mu,H) ight)\ &geq&-log E_mu[e^{-f}]=infleft(int_W fdga+H(ga|mu):,

uin P(W) ight) eeaa where P(W) is the set of probability measures on (W,calB(W)) and H(ga|mu) is the relative entropy of ga w.r.t. mu. We call f a tamed functional if the inequality above can be replaced with equality, we characterize the class of tamed functionals, which is much larger than the set of essentially bounded Wiener functionals. We show that for a tamed functional the minimization problem of l.h.s. has a solution u0 if and only if U0=IW+u0 is almost surely invertible and frac{dU_0mu}{dmu}=frac{e^{-f}}{E_mu[e^{-f}]} and then u0 is unique. To do this is we prove the theorem which says that the relative entropy of U0mu is equal to the energy of u0 if and only if it has a mu-a.s. left inverse. We use these results to prove the strong existence of the solutions of stochastic differentail equations with singular (functional) drifts and also to prove the non-existence of strong solutions of some stochastic differential equations.

oindent {sl Keywords:} Invertibility, entropy, Girsanov theorem, variational calculus, Malliavin calculus, large deviations









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