In this paper, we will prove that, if the coefficient $g=g(t,y,z)$ of a BSDE is assumed to be continuous and linear growth in $(y,z)$, then the uniqueness of solution and continuous dependence with respect to $g$ and the terminal value $ξ$ are equivalent.
In this paper, we study one-dimensional backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE, for short), whose coefficient $f$ is Lipschitz in $y$ but only continuous in $z$. In addition, if the terminal condition $ξ$ has bounded Malliavin derivative, we prove some uniqueness results for the BSDE with quadratic and linear growth in $z$, respectively.
This paper establishes a new existence and uniqueness result of solutions for multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) whose generators satisfy a weak monotonicity condition and a general growth condition in $y$, which generalizes the corresponding results in [2], [3] and [5].
In this note, we prove that if $g$ is uniformly continuous in $z$, uniformly with respect to $(\oo,t)$ and independent of $y$, the solution to the backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with generator $g$ is unique.
This paper considers a class of scalar backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with $L\exp(μ\sqrt{2\log(1+L)})$-integrable terminal values. We associate these BSDEs with BSDEs with integrable parameters through Girsanov change. Using this technique, we prove uniqueness, comparisons and stability for them under an extended monotonicity condition (more precisely one sided Osgood condition).
In this paper, we study multi-dimensional reflected backward stochastic differential equations with diagonally quadratic generators. Using the comparison theorem for diagonally quadratic BSDEs which is established recently in [14], we obtain the existence and uniqueness of a solution by a penalization method. Moreover, we provide a comparison theorem.
In [4], the existence of the solution is proved for a scalar linearly growing backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) if the terminal value is $L\exp{\left(μ\sqrt{2\log{(1+L)}}\,\right)}$-integrable with the positive parameter $μ$ being bigger than a critical value $μ\_0$. In this note, we give the uniqueness result for the preceding BSDE.
In [3], the authors proved that uniqueness holds among solutions whose exponentials are $L^p$ with $p$ bigger than a constant $γ$ ($p\textgreater{}γ$). In this paper, we consider the critical case: $p=γ$. We prove that the uniqueness holds among solutions whose exponentials are $L^γ$ under the additional assumption that the generator is strongly convex.
In a previous work, P. Briand and Y. Hu proved the uniqueness among the solutions which admit every exponential moments. In this paper, we prove that uniqueness holds among solutions which admit some given exponential moments. These exponential moments are natural as they are given by the existence theorem. Thanks to this uniqueness result we can strengthen the nonlinear Feynman-Kac formula proved by P. Briand and Y. Hu.
We put forward and prove several existence and uniqueness results for $L^p\ (p>1)$ solutions of reflected BSDEs with continuous barriers and generators satisfying a one-sided Osgood condition together with a general growth condition in $y$ and a uniform continuity condition or a linear growth condition in $z$. A necessary and sufficient condition with respect to the growth of barrier is also explored to ensure the existence of a solution. And, we show that the solutions may be approximated by the penalization method and by some sequences of solutions of reflected BSDEs. Our results improve con…
We investigate conditions for solvability and Malliavin differentiability of backward stochastic differential equations driven by a Lévy process. In particular, we are interested in generators which satisfy a locally Lipschitz condition in the $Z$ and $U$ variable. This includes settings of linear, quadratic and exponential growths in those variables. Extending an idea of Cheridito and Nam to the jump setting and applying comparison theorems for Lévy-driven BSDEs, we show existence, uniqueness, boundedness and Malliavin differentiability of a solution. The pivotal assumption to obtain these re…
In \cite{HuTang2018ECP}, the existence of the solution is proved for a scalar linearly growing backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) when the terminal value is $L\exp\left(μ\sqrt{2\log(1+L)}\right)$-integrable for a positive parameter $μ>μ_0$ with a critical value $μ_0$, and a counterexample is provided to show that the preceding integrability for $μ<μ_0$ is not sufficient to guarantee the existence of the solution. Afterwards, the uniqueness result (with $μ>μ_0$) is also given in \cite{BuckdahnHuTang2018ECP} for the preceding BSDE under the uniformly Lipschitz condition of the gene…
We refine the solvability of quadratic semimartingale BSDEs by employing a Lipschitz-quadratic regularization procedure. In the first step, we prove an existence and uniqueness result for a class of Lipschitz-quadratic BSDEs. A corresponding stability theorem and a Lipschitz-quadratic regularization are developed to solve quadratic BSDEs. The advantage of our approach is that much weaker conditions ensure the existence and uniqueness results.
We establish a general existence and uniqueness result of $L^1$ solution for a multidimensional backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE for short) with generator $g$ satisfying a one-sided Osgood condition as well as a general growth condition in $y$, and a Lipschitz condition together with a sublinear growth condition in $z$, which improves some existing results. In particular, we put forward and prove a stability theorem of the $L^1$ solutions for the first time. A new type of $L^1$ solution is also investigated. Some delicate techniques involved in the relationship between convergen…
In this paper we prove some uniqueness results for quadratic backward stochastic differential equations without any convexity assumptions on the generator. The bounded case is revisited while some new results are obtained in the unbounded case when the terminal condition and the generator depend on the path of a forward stochastic differential equation. Some of these results are based on strong estimates on $Z$ that are interesting on their own and could be applied in other situations.
In two preceding articles, we studied the problem of the existence and uniqueness of a solution to some general BSDE on manifolds. In these two articles, we assumed some Lipschitz conditions on the drift $f(b,x,z)$. The purpose of this article is to extend the existence and uniqueness results under weaker assumptions, in particular a monotonicity condition in the variable $x$. This extends well-known results for Euclidean BSDE.
In this paper, we study the uniqueness of the solution of reflected BSDE with one or two barriers, under continuous and linear increasing condition of generator $g$. Before that we study the construction of solution of of reflected BSDE with one or two barriers.
We first establish the existence of an unbounded solution to a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with generator $g$ allowing a general growth in the state variable $y$ and a sub-quadratic growth in the state variable $z$, like $|z|^α$ for some $α\in (1,2)$, when the terminal condition satisfies a sub-exponential moment integrability condition like $\exp\left(μL^{2/α^*}\right)$ for the conjugate $α^*$ of $α$ and a positive parameter $μ>μ_0$ with a certain value $μ_0$, which is clearly weaker than the usual $\exp(μL)$ integrability and stronger than $L^p\ (p>1)$ integrability. The…
We prove a uniqueness result of the unbounded solution for a quadratic backward stochastic differential equation whose terminal condition is unbounded and whose generator $g$ may be non-Lipschitz continuous in the state variable $y$, non-convex (non-concave) in the state variable $z$, and instead satisfies a strictly quadratic condition and an additional assumption. The key observation is that if the generator is strictly quadratic, then the quadratic variation of the first component of the solution admits an exponential moment. Typically, a Lipschitz perturbation of some convex (concave) func…
We show existence of a unique solution and a comparison theorem for a one-dimensional backward stochastic differential equation with jumps that emerge from a Lévy process. The considered generators obey a time-dependent extended monotonicity condition in the y-variable and have linear time-dependent growth. Within this setting, the results generalize those of Royer (2006), Yin and Mao (2008) and, in the $L^2$-case with linear growth, those of Kruse and Popier (2016). Moreover, we introduce an approximation technique: Given a BSDE driven by Brownian motion and Poisson random measure, we conside…
This thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, we study $\mathbb{L}^p$ solutions of a large class of BSDEs. Existence, comparison theorem, uniqueness and a stability result are proved. In the second part, we establish the solvability of quadratic semimartingale BSDEs. In contrast to current literature, we use Lipschitz-quadratic regularization and obtain the existence and uniqueness results with minimal assumptions. The third part is a brief summary of quadratic semimartingales and the monotone stability result. This provides an alternative proof of monotone stability result for quadr…
This paper is devoted to the existence, uniqueness and comparison theorem on unbounded solutions of a scalar backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) whose generator grows (with respect to both unknown variables $y$ and $z$) in a super-linear way like $|y||\ln |y||^{(λ+1/2)\wedge 1}+|z||\ln |z||^λ$ for some $λ\geq 0$. For the following four different ranges of the growth power parameter $λ$: $λ=0$, $λ\in (0,1/2)$, $λ=1/2$ and $λ>1/2$, we give reasonably weakest possible different integrability conditions of the terminal value for the existence of an unbounded solution to the BSDE. In t…
In this paper we study one dimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with random terminal time not necessarily bounded or finite when the generator F(t,Y,Z) has a quadratic growth in Z. We provide existence and uniqueness of a bounded solution of such BSDEs and, in the case of infinite horizon, regular dependence on parameters. The obtained results are then applied to prove existence and uniqueness of a mild solution to elliptic partial differential equations in Hilbert spaces.
In this study, we consider a class of backward SDE driven by jump Markov process. An existence and uniqueness result to this kind of equations is obtained in a locally Lipschitz case. We essentially approximate the initial problem by constructing a convenient sequence of globally Lipschitz BSDEs having the existence and the uniqueness propriety. Then, we show, by passing to the limits, the existence, and uniqueness of a solution to the initial problem. After that, a stability theorem is also proved in the local Lipschitz setting. Applying the aforementioned result, we give an application to Eu…
This paper is devoted to the $L^p$ ($p>1$) solutions of one-dimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs for short) with general time intervals and generators satisfying some non-uniform conditions in $t$ and $ω$. An existence and uniqueness result, a comparison theorem and an existence result for the minimal solutions are respectively obtained, which considerably improve some known works. Some classical techniques used to deal with the existence and uniqueness of $L^p$ ($p>1$) solutions of BSDEs with Lipschitz or linear-growth generators are also developed in this paper.
This paper introduces a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), whose coefficients not only depend on the value of its solutions of the present but also the past and the future. For a sufficiently small time delay or a sufficiently small Lipschitz constant, the existence and uniqueness of such BSDEs is obtained. As an adjoint process, a class of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is introduced, whose coefficients also depend on the present, the past and the future of its solutions. The existence and uniqueness of such SDEs is proved for a sufficiently small time adva…
In this paper, we study the reflected BSDE with one continuous barrier, under the monotonicity and general increasing condition on $y$ and non Lipschitz condition on $z$. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution to these equation by approximation method.
In this paper, we are interested in solving multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with a new kind of non-Lipschitz coefficients. We establish an existence and uniqueness result of solutions in $L^p\ (p>1)$, which includes some known results as its particular cases.
We study the existence and uniqueness of minimal supersolutions of backward stochastic differential equations with generators that are jointly lower semicontinuous, bounded below by an affine function of the control variable and satisfy a specific normalization property.
In this paper, we deal with a class of one-dimensional reflected backward stochastic differential equations with stochastic Lipschitz coefficient. We derive the existence and uniqueness of the solutions for those equations via Snell envelope and the fixed point theorem.
In [8] we established existence and uniqueness of solutions of backward stochastic differential equations in L^p under a monotonicity condition on the generator and in a general filtration. There was a mistake in the case 1 \textless{} p \textless{} 2. Here we give a corrected proof. Moreover the quasi-left continuity condition on the filtration is removed.
We show existence and uniqueness of solutions to BSDEs of the form $$ Y_t = ξ+ \int_t^T f(s,Y_s,Z_s)ds - \int_t^T Z_s dW_s$$ in the case where the terminal condition $ξ$ has bounded Malliavin derivative. The driver $f(s,y,z)$ is assumed to be Lipschitz continuous in $y$ but only locally Lipschitz continuous in $z$. In particular, it can grow arbitrarily fast in $z$. If in addition to having bounded Malliavin derivative, $ξ$ is bounded, the driver needs only be locally Lipschitz continuous in $y$. In the special case where the BSDE is Markovian, we obtain existence and uniqueness results for se…
We give necessary and sufficient condition for existence and uniqueness of $\mathbb{L}^{p}$-solutions of reflected BSDEs with continuous barrier, generator monotone with respect to $y$ and Lipschitz continuous with respect to $z$, and with data in $\mathbb{L}^{p}$, $p\ge 1$. We also prove that the solutions may be approximated by the penalization method.
We establish an existence and uniqueness result for a class of multidimensional quadratic backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE). This class is characterized by constraints on some uniform a priori estimate on solutions of a sequence of approximated BSDEs. We also present effective examples of applications. Our approach relies on the strategy developed by Briand and Elie in [Stochastic Process. Appl. 123 2921--2939] concerning scalar quadratic BSDEs.
In this paper, we obtain the existence and uniqueness theorem for backward stochastic differential equation driven by G-Brownian motion (G-BSDE) under degenerate case. Moreover, we propose a new probabilistic method based on the representation theorem of G-expectation and weak convergence to obtain the regularity of fully nonlinear PDE associated to G-BSDE.
In this paper, we are interested in solving general time interval multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations in $L^p$ $(p\geq 1)$. We first study the existence and uniqueness for $L^p$ $(p>1)$ solutions by the method of convolution and weak convergence when the generator is monotonic in $y$ and Lipschitz continuous in $z$ both non-uniformly with respect to $t$. Then we obtain the existence and uniqueness for $L^1$ solutions with an additional assumption that the generator has a sublinear growth in $z$ non-uniformly with respect to $t$.
In this paper, we continue in solving reflected generalized backward stochastic differential equations (RGBSDE for short) and fixed terminal time with use some new technical aspects of the stochastic calculus related to the reflected generalized BSDE. Here, existence and uniqueness of solution is proved under a non-Lipschitz condition on the coefficients.
Results on the existence, uniqueness and strict comparison for solutions to a BSDE driven by a multi-dimensional RCLL martingale are established. The goal is to develop a general multi-asset framework encompassing a wide spectrum of nonlinear financial models with jumps, including as particular cases the setups studied by Peng and Xu \cite{PX2009,PX2010} and Dumitrescu et al. \cite{DGQS2018} who dealt with BSDEs driven by a one-dimensional Brownian motion and a purely discontinuous martingale with a single jump.
We study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) for time-changed Lévy noises when the time-change is independent of the Lévy process. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and we obtain an explicit formula for linear BSDEs and a comparison principle. BSDEs naturally appear in control problems. Here we prove a sufficient maximum principle for a general optimal control problem of a system driven by a time-changed Lévy noise. As an illustration we solve the mean-variance portfolio selection problem.
In this paper, we study existence and uniqueness to multidimensional Reflected Backward Stochastic Differential Equation in an open convex domain, allowing for oblique directions of reflection. In a Markovian framework, combining \emph{a priori} estimates for penalised equations and compactness arguments, we obtain existence results under quite weak assumptions on the driver of the BSDEs and the direction of reflection, which is allowed to depend on both $Y$ and $Z$. In a non Markovian framework, we obtain existence and uniqueness result for direction of reflection depending on time and $Y$. W…
In this paper, we define a notion of second-order backward stochastic differential equations with jumps (2BSDEJs for short), which generalizes the continuous case considered by Soner, Touzi and Zhang [Probab. Theory Related Fields 153 (2012) 149-190]. However, on the contrary to their formulation, where they can define pathwise the density of quadratic variation of the canonical process, in our setting, the compensator of the jump measure associated to the jumps of the canonical process, which is the counterpart of the density in the continuous case, depends on the underlying probability measu…
This paper is devoted to obtaining a wellposedness result for multidimensional BSDEs with possibly unbounded random time horizon and driven by a general martingale in a filtration only assumed to satisfy the usual hypotheses, i.e. the filtration may be stochastically discontinuous. We show that for stochastic Lipschitz generators and unbounded, possibly infinite, time horizon, these equations admit a unique solution in appropriately weighted spaces. Our result allows in particular to obtain a wellposedness result for BSDEs driven by discrete--time approximations of general martingales.
In this paper, we consider the reflected backward stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion (reflected G-BSDEs) whose coefficients satisfy the beta-order Mao's condition. The uniqueness is obtained by some a priori estimates and the existence can be proved by two different methods. The first one is Picard iteration and the second one is approximation via penalization. The latter construction is useful to get the comparison theorem.
Using a new notion of path-derivative, we study well-posedness of backward stochastic differential equation driven by a continuous martingale $M$ when $f(s,γ,y,z)$ is locally Lipschitz in $(y,z)$: \[Y_{t}=ξ(M_{[0,T]})+\int_{t}^{T}f(s,M_{[0,s]},Y_{s-},Z_{s}m_{s})d{\rm tr}[M,M]_{s}-\int_{t}^{T}Z_{s}dM_{s}-N_{T}+N_{t}\] Here, $M_{[0,t]}$ is the path of $M$ from $0$ to $t$ and $m$ is defined by $[M,M]_{t}=\int_{0}^{t}m_{s}m_{s}^{*}d{\rm tr}[M,M]_{s}$. When the BSDE is one-dimensional, we could show the existence and uniqueness of solution. On the contrary, when the BSDE is multidimensional, we sho…
In the present article we provide existence, uniqueness and stability results under an exponential moments condition for quadratic semimartingale backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) having convex generators. We show that the martingale part of the BSDE solution defines a true change of measure and provide an example which demonstrates that pointwise convergence of the drivers is not sufficient to guarantee a stability result within our framework.
It is now established that under quite general circumstances, including in models with jumps, the existence of a solution to a reflected BSDE is guaranteed under mild conditions, whereas the existence of a solution to a doubly reflected BSDE is essentially equivalent to the so-called Mokobodski condition. As for uniqueness of solutions, this holds under mild integrability conditions. However, for practical purposes, existence and uniqueness are not enough. In order to further develop these results in Markovian set-ups, one also needs a (simply or doubly) reflected BSDE to be well posed, in the…
In this paper, we first establish the existence and uniqueness of $L^p\ (p>1)$ solutions for multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) under a weak monotonicity condition together with a general growth condition in $y$ for the generator $g$. Then, we overview several conditions related closely to the weak monotonicity condition and compare them in an effective way. Finally, we put forward and prove a stability theorem and a comparison theorem of $L^p\ (p>1)$ solutions for this kind of BSDEs.
We establish existence and uniqueness for a wide class of Markovian systems of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) with quadratic nonlinearities. This class is characterized by an abstract structural assumption on the generator, an a-priori local-boundedness property, and a locally-Hölder-continuous terminal condition. We present easily verifiable sufficient conditions for these assumptions and treat several applications, including stochastic equilibria in incomplete financial markets, stochastic differential games, and martingales on Riemannian manifolds.
The present paper is devoted to investigating the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a class of non-Lipschitz scalar valued backward stochastic differential equations driven by $G$-Brownian motion ($G$-BSDEs). In fact, when the generators are Lipschitz continuous in $y$ and uniformly continuous in $z$, we construct the unique solution to such equations by monotone convergence argument. The comparison theorem and related Feynman-Kac formula are stated as well.
We prove existence and uniqueness of L^p solutions of reflected backward stochastic differential equations with p-integrable data and generators satisfying the monotonicity condition. We also show that the solution may be approximated by the penalization method. Our results are new even in the classical case p=2.
We establish several existence, uniqueness and comparison results for $L^1$ solutions of non-reflected BSDEs and reflected BSDEs with one and two continuous barriers under the assumption that the generator $g$ satisfies a one-sided Osgood condition together with a very general growth condition in $y$, a uniform continuity condition and/or a sub-linear growth condition in $z$, and a generalized Mokobodzki condition which relates the growth of $g$ and that of the barriers. This generalized Mokobodzki condition is proved to be necessary for existence of $L^1$ solutions of the reflected BSDEs. We …