The Malliavin Calculus and Related Topics by David Nualart

By David Nualart

The Malliavin calculus is an infinite-dimensional differential calculus on a Gaussian house, constructed to supply a probabilistic facts to Hörmander's sum of squares theorem yet has chanced on a number functions in stochastic research. This ebook offers the positive aspects of Malliavin calculus and discusses its major purposes. This moment variation contains contemporary functions in finance and a bankruptcy dedicated to the stochastic calculus with recognize to the fractional Brownian motion.

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Proof: The condition is obviously necessary. To show the sufficiency, define ∞ F = 1 In+1 (fn ). n+1 n=0 Clearly, this series converges in D1,2 and DF = u. 10 Every process u ∈ L2 (T × Ω) has a unique orthogonal decomposition u = DF + u0 , where F ∈ D1,2 , E(F ) = 0, and E( DG, u0 H ) = 0 for all G in D1,2 . Furthermore, u0 is Skorohod integrable and δ(u0 ) = 0. 9. Therefore, any process u ∈ L2 (T × Ω) has a unique orthogonal decomposition u = DF + u0 , where F ∈ D1,2 , and u0 ⊥DG for all G in D1,2 .

Let u be an element of L2 (Ω; H) such that u1A belongs to the domain of δ and such that F u1A ∈ L2 (Ω; H). 48) is square integrable. The next proposition provides a useful criterion to for the existence of the divergence. 6 Consider an element u ∈ L2 (Ω; H) such that there exists a sequence un ∈ Domδ which converges to u in L2 (Ω; H). Suppose that there exists G ∈ L2 (Ω) such that limn→∞ E(δ(un )F ) = E(GF ) for all F ∈ S. Then, u belongs to Domδ and δ(u) = G. 2 The Skorohod integral We will suppose in this subsection that the separable Hilbert space H is an L2 space of the form H = L2 (T, B, µ), where µ is a σ-finite atomless measure on a measurable space (T, B).

44 1. 3 The Itˆo stochastic integral as a particular case of the Skorohod integral It is not difficult to construct processes u that are Skorohod integrable (they belong to Dom δ) and do not belong to the space L1,2 . The next result provides a simple method for constructing processes of this type. 2 Let A belong to B0 , and let F be a square integrable random variable that is measurable with respect to the σ-field FAc . Then the process F 1A is Skorohod integrable and δ(F 1A ) = F W (A). Proof: Suppose first that F belongs to the space D1,2 .

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