Large deviation for small noise path-dependent stochastic differential equations
Abstract
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of randomly perturbed path-dependent stochastic differential equations with small parameter , when , goes to . When , we establish large deviation principle. The proof of the results relies on the weak convergence approach. As an application, we establish the large deviation for functionals of path-dependent SDEs in small time intervals.
keywords:
Path-dependent stochastic differential equations , Large deviation principle , Weak convergenceMSC:
[2010] 60H10, 60F05, 60F10organization=Department of Statistic and Data Science, School of Economics,addressline=Jinan University, city=Guangzhou, postcode=510632, state=Guangdong, country=PR China
1 Introduction
This paper sheds new light on the asymptotic behaviour of the class of path-dependent stochastic differential equations (PSDEs).
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PSDEs have received increasing attentions by researchers which are much more involved than classical SDEs as the drift and diffusion coefficients depending on path of solution. In a nutshell, this kind of equations plays an important role in characterising non-Markov partial differential equations (PDEs for short). Ekren et al. [6] obtained the viscosity solutions of path-dependent semi-linear parabolic PDEs using backward PSDEs and Non-anticipative analysis [5, 3], and subsequently extended the results to fully nonlinear forms of path-dependent PDEs [7].
It is well known that the key point of large deviation principle (LDP for short) is to show the probability property of rare events. Small noise LDP for SDEs has a long history. The pioneering work of [8] considered rare events induced by Markov diffusions. Recently, an important contribution by [1] was to use the weak convergence method to obtain a significant simplified approach. Their approach avoided proof exponential continuity and tightness estimates. Weakly convergent methods are widely used in proving large deviations of stochastic differential equations and stochastic partial differential equations, see [11, 13, 14] and references therein.
There have been some studies on large deviations of path-dependent SDEs. For example, Gao and Liu [9] stuided such a problem via the sample path LDP method by Freidlin-Wentzell and show the LDP under (r,q)-capacity. And Ma et al. [12] based on PDEs method get the LDP of path-dependent SDEs. In this paper, we use a different line of argument, adapting the weak convergence approach of Budhiraja and Dupuis [1] to the path-dependent case.
Compared with the results mentioned above, the contribution of this paper is to study LDP when the coefficients of PSDEs are all depending on , i.e., the solutions of PSDEs possibly degenerate. As an application, we establish the large deviation for functionals of PSDEs in small time intervals.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we state the weak convergence method for the large deviation principle given in Budhiraja and Dupuis [1]. We give the main theorem and prove it in Section 3. Finally, in Section 4, we show the large deviation principle for the functional of PSDEs in small time interval.
We end this section with some notations. We consider a fixed time horizon , and denote . Let be the Banach space of continuous functions equipped with the sup-norm , as the space of continuous functions on with initial value 0 and has first-order derivative, as the space of continuous functions on with initial value 0, has first-order derivative and has a bound. stands short for and is the usual norm.
2 Preliminaries
2.1 Framework
We consider small-noise convolution PSDEs
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taking values in with , where and tends to zero as goes to zero. For each , , , are two product measurable maps that are non-anticipative in the sense that they satisfy and for all and each , where denote the path stopped at time . is an m-dimensional Brownian motion on the filtered probability space satisfying the usual conditions. We make following assumptions about the coefficients:
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A.1
converges to as tends to zero.
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A.2
For all small enough, the coefficients and are measurable maps on and converge pointwise to and as goes to zero. Moreover, and are continuous on , uniformly in .
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A.3
For all small enough, and have linear growth uniformly in and in . For some
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A.4
For all small enough, the coefficients and are locally Lipschitz continuous. For any , there exists such that, for all
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2.2 Abstract sufficient conditions for large deviations
Defination 1 (Large deviation [4])
A family of -valued random variable is said to satisfy the large deviation principle on , with the good rate function and with the speed function which is a sequence of positive numbers tending to as , if the following conditions hold:
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for each , the level set is a compact subset of ;
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for each closed subset of ;
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for each open subset of .
We recall here several results from Budhiraja and Dupuis [1] which gives an abstract framework of LDP.
Let denote the class of real-valued -predictable processes belonging to a.s. For each the spaces of bounded deterministic and stochastic controls
is endowed with the weak topology induced from . Define
Theorem 2 (Budhiraja and Dupuis [1])
For any , let be a measurable mapping from into . Suppose that satisfies the following assumptions: there exists a measurable map such that
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for every and any family satisfying that converge in distribution as -valued random elements to as converges in distribution to as ;
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for every , the set is a compact subset of .
Then the family satisfies a large deviation principle with the good rate function I given by
with the convention .
3 Main Result and Proof
If A.5 hold, define the functional as the Borel-measurable map associating the multidimensional Brownian motion to the solution of the path dependent stochastic differential systems (2), that is: . For any control , and any , the process is a Brownian motion by Girsanov’s theorem, where
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Hence the shifted version appearing in Theorem 2 (1) is the strong unique solution of (2) under , with and replaced by and . Because and are equivalent, is also the unique strong solution, under , of the controlled equation
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Taking , the system (6) reduces to the deterministic path dependent ODE
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Theorem 3
Remark 1
We first show the unique solution of (7) and a uniform estimation.
Lemma 4
Under A.1-A.6, given any , there is a unique solution of (7). Moreover, for , we have the growth estimate
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Proof 1
Let be solutions of (7). We have
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By assumption A.4, we have for large enough
Gronwall’s inequality now entails that , which yields uniqueness.
By using assumption A.3, we can get that
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By Gronwalls’ inequality, we can deduce
We need some technical preliminary results.
Lemma 5
Under A.1-A.6, for all , , and small enough, there exists a constant independent of , , such that
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Proof 2
Let us fix , , and . Let be the stopping time defined by
We write and .
We fix and observe that, almost surely:
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For small enough we can bound by and by . Using Holder’s and Jensen’s inequalities, we obtain the following estimates almost surely:
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and
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By Burkholder-Davis-Gundy (B-D-G) inequality, there exists such that
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From the linear growth condition on and we deduce that there exists independent of , , and such that for all
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Taking goes to infinity and using Gronwall’s lemma, we prove this bound.
Lemma 6
is tightness
Proof 3
In view of the Kolmogorov tightness criterion, it suffices to show that there exist strictly positive constants , and such that for all , ,
Without loss of generality, let . We will write and .
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From the linear growth condition on and we deduce that there exists sufficiently large and let , . Then the hypotheses of Kolmogorov’s criterion are therefore satisfied.
Lemma 7
For any positive , the set
is a compact set in
Proof 4
We first prove is a continuity map form to , then for any positive , is compact set in weak topology. Since is continuity map, we can show is a compact set in .
Taking , weakly, let , . Then, for ,
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Since , it follows from (8) that is finite. Therefore, using assumption A.4,
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Let . By Holder’s inequality and since for all , it follows that
By Gronwall’s lemma, we can deduce that
In order to establish continuity of on , it remains to check that goes to as . By A.3, it follows that converges weakly to in . Moreover, the family is bounded in with respect to the norm. Hence,
which implies that as .
Lemma 8
Under A.1-A.6, for every and any family satisfying that converge in distribution as valued random elements to as , converges in distribution to as .
Proof 5
By Skorohod representation theorem we can work with almost sure convergence for the purpose of identifying the limit. We follow the technique in Chiarini and Fischer [2].
For , define as
is bounded and we show that it is also continuous. Let in and in with respect to the weak topology. A.2 implies the existence of continuous moduli of continuity and for both coefficients such that and . Using Holder’s inequality we find that
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Since tends to weakly in then the last integral converges to zero as goes to infinity. Moreover , which proves that is continuous, and therefore
Define and by
It is clear that the function and are globally Lipschitz and bounded. By assumption A.2, and uniformly on . In analogy with , set
Consider the family of solutions to the PSDE
We will show
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The last term in the above display tends to 0 since
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Then, we have
For and , let is a stopping time defined by
We have
It follows that
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For all , by Markov’s inequality we have
Taking upper limits on both side of (23), we obtain
Since has been chosen arbitrarily, it follows that
4 Application: Small time large deviation principle for path-dependent stochastic differential equation
In this section, we study the LDP for functional of PSDEs in small time intervals: as , where
We rescale the small time problem to a small perturbation problem.
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Where, . Let , by (24), we have
Now, we can use Theorem 3 to obtain the LDP for small time PSDEs.
Theorem 9
For functional of generally, we have the following result
Theorem 10
Let . Then the process satisfies a LDP as with rate function and speed .
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