Kolmogorov equations on spaces of measures associated to nonlinear filtering processes

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2023.04.013zbMATH Open1517.60092arXiv2107.11865MaRDI QIDQ6157007FDOQ6157007

Authors: Mattia Martini 

Publication date: 19 June 2023

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce and study some backward Kolmogorov equations associated to stochastic filtering problems. Measure-valued processed arise naturally in the context of stochastic filtering and one can formulate two stochastic differential equations, called Zakai and Kushner-Stratonovitch equation, that are satisfied by a positive measure and a probability measure-valued process respectively. The associated Kolmogorov equations have been intensively studied, mainly assuming that the measure-valued processes admit a density and then by exploiting stochastic calculus techniques in Hilbert spaces. Our approach differs from this since we do not assume the existence of a density and we work directly in the context of measures. We first formulate two Kolmogorov equations of parabolic type, one on a space of positive measures and one on a space of probability measures, and then we prove existence and uniqueness of classical solutions. In order to do that, we prove some intermediate results of independent interest. In particular, we prove It^o formulas for the composition of measure-valued filtering processes and real-valued functions. Moreover we study the regularity of the solution to the filtering equations with respect to the initial datum. In order to achieve these results, proper notions of derivatives on space of positive measures have been introduced and discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11865

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zbMATH Keywords

stochastic filteringmeasure-valued processesbackward Kolmogorov equationsdifferential equations on spaces of measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30)

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