Euler-Maruyama scheme for SDE driven by Lévy process with Hölder drift
Abstract.
This study focuses on approximating solutions to SDEs driven by Lévy processes with Hölder continuous drifts using the Euler-Maruyama scheme. We derive the -error for a broad range of driven noises, including all nondegenerate -stable processes ().
Keywords: Stochastic differential equation, Lévy process, Euler-Maruyama scheme
AMS 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 39A50; Secondary 41A25, 60J76
1. Introduction
Let be a pure jump Lévy process whose characteristic exponent is given by
where is the intensity measure satisfying . Consider the following stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by :
(1.1) |
as well as its Euler-Maruyama scheme
(1.2) |
where .
The main purpose of this paper is to study the strong convergence rate of the Euler-Maruyama approximation for (1.1), where belongs to a wide class of Lévy processes. The main result is formulated as follows:
Theorem 1.1.
Assume that there are constants , and such that
(1.3) |
and with . Then for each , there is a constant C depending on such that
(1.4) |
Remark 1.2.
One sufficient condition for to satisfy (1.3) is
(1.5) |
where and are two positive constants. The reason is: using , we have
The Euler-Maruyama approximation of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is a well-established field of research in probability theory and numerical analysis, with a vast body of literature dedicated to it. A notable phenomenon in this area is the regularization of the noise for schemes with irregular drift. For instance, Gyöngy-Krylov [GK96] established the convergence (without an explicit rate) of the Euler-Maruyama scheme when the driven noise is the Brownian motion and the drift coefficient satisfies certain integrability conditions. Recently, researchers have imposed -Hölder type conditions on the modulus of continuity of drifts in [NT17], [BHY19], and [SYZ22] (with the latter two works discussing more general cases). Although the index can be arbitrarily small, the drawback is that the convergence rates obtained become increasingly worse as approaches zero. When the driven noise is an -stable process with , and the drift coefficient is only -Hölder continuous with , the strong well-posedness of (1.1) has been studied in [TTW74], [Pri12], [Pri15],[CSZ18], and [CZZ21]. However, only for , the rate of strong convergence for the Euler-Maruyama approximation of SDE (1.1) has been studied in [MPT17], [MX18], [HL18], and [KS19]. Notably, all of the convergence rates obtained in these works depend on the regularity of the drift coefficient, and they become increasingly worse as approaches .
Our contribution is to relax some constraints on noise in previous studies. Specifically, we address a scenario where the intensity measure is singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure and the parameter lies in the whole range . Our approach is quite straightforward. In section 2,we consider the following resolvent equation that corresponds to (1.1)
(1.6) |
where is the infinitesimal generator of , i.e.
Using the similar line of proof from the second named author’s previous work [Zha21, Theorem 1.1] (see also [CZZ21]), we arrive at the primary auxiliary analytic result, Theorem 2.3, which establishes a good regularity estimate for solutions to (1.6). Then in section 3, by re-expressing the drift term in equations (1.1) and (1.2) in a form that facilitates comparison between the two, we prove our main result.
We close this section by mentioning the remarkable contributions of recent works, such as [DG20], [BDG21] and [BJ22], which have shown that an almost rate of convergence holds for all Hölder (or Dini) continuous coefficients, when the driven noises are Brownian motions. These results are further supported by related works such as [LS17] and [MGY20]. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is currently no literature that investigates whether the convergence rate is insensitive to the regularity of when is modeled by an -stable process. This issue is beyond the scope of this short note, so we will investigate it in our future work.
2. Auxiliary Results
In this section, we formulate some results that will be used in the proof of Theorem 1.1. Before that let us introduce some notions and recall very basic facts from Littlewood-Paley theory. Let be the Schwartz space of all rapidly decreasing functions, and the dual space of called Schwartz generalized function (or tempered distribution) space. Denote the Fourier transform of by or .
Let be a smooth radial function so that and . Define
The dyadic block operator is defined by
For and , the Besov space is defined as the set of all with
For each with , and , the Hölder space and Sobolev-Slobodeckij space are defined by
and
respectively. We have the following relations for the above functional spaces:
(see for instance [Tri92]).
In the following, we present some analytical results that are required to prove our main theorem. Firstly, we introduce a novel form of Bernstein’s inequality, as presented in [CMZ07].
Lemma 2.1.
For any , and , there is a constant such that for all ,
(2.1) |
Secondly, following [CZZ21], we have the following crucial lemma.
Lemma 2.2.
Suppose for some and . Then for any , there are constants and such that for all , it holds that
(2.2) |
and for all ,
(2.3) |
Proof.
For , by the elementary inequality for , we have
Letting be a smooth function, by definition we have
Multiplying both sides by and then integrating in over , by Plancherel’s formula, we obtain
which implies (2.3). Moreover, by our assumption on , we have (for all ). Thus,
This in turn gives (2.2) by (2.1) (taking ). Inequality (2.3) is trivial, so we omit its proof here. ∎
The following result is a refined version of [Zha21, Theorem 1.1] (with therein).
Theorem 2.3.
3. Proof of main result
Proof of Theorem 1.1.
Fix . Based on our assumptions and Theorem 2.3, we can conclude that equation (1.6) with has a unique solution . Furthermore, if and is large enough, by interpolation, the following inequality holds:
(3.1) |
Let be the Poisson random measure associated with , whose intensity measure is given by . Then
where . Thanks to the generalized Itô’s formula (see [Pri12]), we have
which implies
(3.2) | ||||
Similarly,
(3.3) | ||||
By definition,
Plugging (3.2) and (3.3) in to the above equation, we obtain
For and , by our assumption on and (3.1), we have
For , and , again using (3.1), one sees that
For , by BDG inequatlity and the basic fact that , we get
Combining all the estimates above, we arrive
Therefore, for sufficiently small, we have
Iterating this procedure finite times we reach the full time horizon . ∎
Corollary 3.1.
If is a nondegenerate -stable process, then
Proof.
Since , we have
So we complete our proof. ∎
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