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In this paper we develop sensitivity analyses w.r.t. the long-range/memory noise parameter for solutions to stochastic differential equations and the probability distributions of their first passage times at given thresholds. Here we consider the case of stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motions and the sensitivity, when the Hurst parameter~$H$ of the noise tends to the pure Brownian value, of probability distributions of certain functionals of the trajectories of the solutions ${X^H_t}_{tin mathbb{R}_+}$. We first get accurate sensitivity estimates w.r.t. $H$ around the critical Brownian parameter $H=tfrac{1}{2}$ of time marginal probability distributions of $X^H$. We second develop a sensitivity analysis for the Laplace transform of first passage time of $X^H$ at a given threshold. Our technique requires accurate Gaussian estimates on the density of $X^H_t$. The Gaussian estimate we obtain in Section~5 may be of interest by itself.
Within the rough path framework we prove the continuity of the solution to random differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with respect to the Hurst parameter $H$ when $H in (1/3, 1/2]$.
We present an innovating sensitivity analysis for stochastic differential equations: We study the sensitivity, when the Hurst parameter~$H$ of the driving fractional Brownian motion tends to the pure Brownian value, of probability distributions of smooth functionals of the trajectories of the solutions ${X^H_t}_{tin mathbb{R}_+}$ and of the Laplace transform of the first passage time of $X^H$ at a given threshold. Our technique requires to extend already known Gaussian estimates on the density of $X^H_t$ to estimates with constants which are uniform w.r.t. $t$ in in the whole half-line $R_+-{0}$ and $H$ when $H$ tends to~$tfrac{1}{2}$.
We study the Crank-Nicolson scheme for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by multidimensional fractional Brownian motion $(B^{1}, dots, B^{m})$ with Hurst parameter $H in (frac 12,1)$. It is well-known that for ordinary differential equations with proper conditions on the regularity of the coefficients, the Crank-Nicolson scheme achieves a convergence rate of $n^{-2}$, regardless of the dimension. In this paper we show that, due to the interactions between the driving processes $ B^{1}, dots, B^{m} $, the corresponding Crank-Nicolson scheme for $m$-dimensional SDEs has a slower rate than for the one-dimensional SDEs. Precisely, we shall prove that when $m=1$ and when the drift term is zero, the Crank-Nicolson scheme achieves the exact convergence rate $n^{-2H}$, while in the case $m=1$ and the drift term is non-zero, the exact rate turns out to be $n^{-frac12 -H}$. In the general case when $m>1$, the exact rate equals $n^{frac12 -2H}$. In all these cases the limiting distribution of the leading error is proved to satisfy some linear SDE driven by Brownian motions independent of the given fractional Brownian motions.
In this paper, we study the reflected backward stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion with two reflecting obstacles, which means that the solution lies between two prescribed processes. A new kind of approximate Skorohod condition is proposed to derive the uniqueness and existence of the solutions. The uniqueness can be proved by a priori estimates and the existence is obtained via a penalization method.
This article is concerned with stochastic differential equations driven by a $d$ dimensional fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/4$, understood in the rough paths sense. Whenever the coefficients of the equation satisfy a uniform hypoellipticity condition, we establish a sharp local estimate on the associated control distance function and a sharp local lower estimate on the density of the solution. Our methodology relies heavily on the rough paths structure of the equation.