Viscosity characterization of the explosion time distribution for diffusions

DOI10.3150/15-BEJ752zbMATH Open1361.60069arXiv1407.5102OpenAlexW3104044458MaRDI QIDQ502886FDOQ502886

Authors: Yinghui Wang 

Publication date: 11 January 2017

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the tail distribution $U$ of the explosion time for a multidimensional diffusion (and more generally, a suitable function $mathscrU$ of the Feynman-Kac type involving the explosion time) is a viscosity solution of an associated parabolic partial differential equation (PDE), provided that the dispersion and drift coefficients of the diffusion are continuous. This generalizes a result of Karatzas and Ruf (2013), who characterize $U$ as a classical solution of a Cauchy problem for the PDE in the one-dimensional case, under the stronger condition of local H"older continuity on the coefficients. Furthermore, we show that $mathscrU$ is dominated by any nonnegative classical supersolution of this Cauchy problem, and that $mathscrU$ is the smallest lower-semicontinuous viscosity supersolution of that PDE with an appropriate boundary condition, provided it is a classical solution. We also consider another notion of weak solvability, that of the distributional (sub/super)solution, and show that $mathscrU$ is no greater than any nonnegative distributional supersolution of the relevant PDE. Finally, we establish the joint continuity of $mathscrU$ in the one-dimensional case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5102

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zbMATH Keywords

Feynman-Kac formulaviscosity solutiondiffusionsminimal solutionparabolic PDEdistributional solutionexplosion time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes (60J60) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Second-order parabolic equations (35K10)

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