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    Splitting methods for SPDEs: From robustness to financial engineering, optimal control and nonlinear filtering
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Bayer, Christian; Oberhauser, Harald
    In this survey chapter we give an overview of recent applications of the splitting method to stochastic (partial) differential equations, that is, differential equations that evolve under the influence of noise. We discuss weak and strong approximations schemes. The applications range from the management of risk, financial engineering, optimal control and nonlinear filtering to the viscosity theory of nonlinear SPDEs.
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    Optimal stopping with signatures
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Bayer, Christian; Hager, Paul; Riedel, Sebastian; Schoenmakers, John G. M.
    We propose a new method for solving optimal stopping problems (such as American option pricing in finance) under minimal assumptions on the underlying stochastic process. We consider classic and randomized stopping times represented by linear functionals of the associated rough path signature, and prove that maximizing over the class of signature stopping times, in fact, solves the original optimal stopping problem. Using the algebraic properties of the signature, we can then recast the problem as a (deterministic) optimization problem depending only on the (truncated) expected signature. The only assumption on the process is that it is a continuous (geometric) random rough path. Hence, the theory encompasses processes such as fractional Brownian motion which fail to be either semi-martingales or Markov processes.