Optimal Stopping of a Hilbert Space Valued Diffusion: An Infinite Dimensional Variational Inequality
A finite horizon optimal stopping problem for an infinite dimensional diffusion X is analyzed by means of variational techniques. The diffusion is driven by a SDE on a Hilbert space H with a non-linear diffusion coefficient σ ( X ) and a generic unbounded operator A in the drift term. When the gain...
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| Vydáno v: | Applied mathematics & optimization Ročník 73; číslo 2; s. 271 - 312 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York
Springer US
01.04.2016
Springer Nature B.V |
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| ISSN: | 0095-4616, 1432-0606 |
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| Shrnutí: | A finite horizon optimal stopping problem for an infinite dimensional diffusion
X
is analyzed by means of variational techniques. The diffusion is driven by a SDE on a Hilbert space
H
with a non-linear diffusion coefficient
σ
(
X
)
and a generic unbounded operator
A
in the drift term. When the gain function
Θ
is time-dependent and fulfils mild regularity assumptions, the value function
U
of the optimal stopping problem is shown to solve an infinite-dimensional, parabolic, degenerate variational inequality on an unbounded domain. Once the coefficient
σ
(
X
)
is specified, the solution of the variational problem is found in a suitable Banach space
V
fully characterized in terms of a Gaussian measure
μ
. This work provides the infinite-dimensional counterpart, in the spirit of Bensoussan and Lions (Application of variational inequalities in stochastic control,
1982
), of well-known results on optimal stopping theory and variational inequalities in
R
n
. These results may be useful in several fields, as in mathematical finance when pricing American options in the HJM model. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0095-4616 1432-0606 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00245-015-9302-8 |