A comparative linear mean-square stability analysis of Maruyama- and Milstein-type methods

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Abstract: In this article we compare the mean-square stability properties of the Theta-Maruyama and Theta-Milstein method that are used to solve stochastic differential equations. For the linear stability analysis, we propose an extension of the standard geometric Brownian motion as a test equation and consider a scalar linear test equation with several multiplicative noise terms. This test equation allows to begin investigating the influence of multi-dimensional noise on the stability behaviour of the methods while the analysis is still tractable. Our findings include: (i) the stability condition for the Theta-Milstein method and thus, for some choices of Theta, the conditions on the step-size, are much more restrictive than those for the Theta-Maruyama method; (ii) the precise stability region of the Theta-Milstein method explicitly depends on the noise terms. Further, we investigate the effect of introducing partially implicitness in the diffusion approximation terms of Milstein-type methods, thus obtaining the possibility to control the stability properties of these methods with a further method parameter Sigma. Numerical examples illustrate the results and provide a comparison of the stability behaviour of the different methods.


The authors consider the scalar linear stochastic differential equation \[ dX(t) = \lambda X(t)dt + \sum_{r=1}^m \mu_r X(t)dW_r(t), \quad t \geq t_0 \geq 0, \quad X(t_0)= X_0, \] driven by an \(m\)-dimensional standard Wiener process \(W(t) = (W_1(t), \dots, W_m(t))\). They then compare the mean-square stability properties of the \(\theta\)-Maruyama and the \(\theta\)-Milstein method when applied to this test equation. In particular, they provide necessary and sufficient conditions for mean-square stability in each case, showing that the condition in the case of the \(\theta\)-Milstein method involves terms in addition to those also present for the \(\theta\)-Maruyama method, which explicitly depend on the coefficients of the diffusion term. Further, by introducing a method parameter \(\sigma\) into the diffusion approximation terms of the Milstein-type methods, thus obtaining a partial implicitness in these diffusion approximation terms, they study the effect of having some control over the stability properties of these methods. Numerical examples illustrate the results and provide a comparison of the stability behaviour of the different methods.



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