Abstract
In this paper, we explore a new class of stochastic differential equations called anticipated generalized backward doubly stochastic differential equations (AGBDSDEs), which not only involve two symmetric integrals related to two independent Brownian motions and an integral driven by a continuous increasing process but also include generators depending on the anticipated terms of the solution (Y, Z). Firstly, we prove the existence and uniqueness theorem for AGBDSDEs. Further, two comparison theorems are obtained after finding a new comparison theorem for GBDSDEs.
Keywords:
anticipated generalized backward doubly stochastic differential equation; existence and uniqueness; comparison theorem MSC:
60H10; 60H30
1. Introduction
Nonlinear backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs in short) were introduced by Pardoux and Peng [1] in 1990. Since then, BSDEs have been received considerable research attention due to their application in a lot of different research areas, for example, mathematical finance (see El Karoui et al. [2]), stochastic control, differential games and partial differential equations. Ref. [3] proposed a newly optimized symmetric explicit ten-step method with phase-lag of order infinity to numerically solve the Schrodinger equation. Pardoux and Zhang [4] introduced the following equation:
where is an increasing process, to obtain a probabilistic formula for solutions of semilinear partial differential equations (SPDEs) with a Neumann boundary condition. Ren and Xia [5] further investigated the above topic with reflection, then Ren and Otmani [6] extended this problem to Levy setting.
Pardoux and Peng [7] first presented a class of backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs in short) to give a probabilistic representation for a class of quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations. Then Shi et al. [8] gave a comparison theorem for BDSDEs with Lipschitz condition on the coefficients. In this way, Boufoussi et al. [9] gave the following generalized backward doubly stochastic differential equation:
in which the equations not only involve a standard (forward) stochastic It integral but also a symmetric backward stochastic It integral . They first obtained the existence and uniqueness for the above equation, then gave the viscosity solution to one kind of semilinear SPDE, a probabilistic representation. Hu and Ren [10] explored this problem with an integral driven by the Levy process. Aman and Mrhardy [11] investigated the Equation (1) with reflection.
Peng and Yang [12] introduced a new type of BSDE called anticipated BSDEs. The generator of these equations includes not only the values of solutions of the present but also the future. The authors found that these anticipated BSDEs have unique solutions under Lipschitz assumptions, a comparison theorem for their solutions, and a duality between them and stochastic differential delay equations. After the work of Peng and Yang [12], Zhang [13] dealt with the comparison theorem of one dimensional anticipated BSDEs under one kind of non-Lipschitz assumption. Xu [14] and zhang [15] introduced the so-called anticipated BDSDES (ABDSDEs). They proved the existence and uniqueness of the solution to these equations, obtained some comparison theorems in the one dimensional case, and studied the duality between ABDSDEs and delayed SDDEs. Reference [16] investigated a coupled system which is composed by a delayed forward doubly stochastic differential equation and an anticipated backward doubly SDE. Recently, Wu et al. [17] proposed the so-called anticipated GBSDEs (AGBSDEs) of the following form:
where and are given -valued continuous functions and for such that:
(A1) there exists a constant such that, for all , ;
(A2) there exists a constant such that, for all and for all non-negative and integrable ,
and for any interval , , we have d d, where d is a measure generated by K on .
In this paper, we are concerned with the following anticipated GBDSDEs:
where , , and are given -valued continuous functions such that (A1) and (A2). We will prove that the solution of the above AGBDSDE exists uniquely under proper assumptions, and two versions of one dimensional comparison theorems are given. These results are the cornerstones of AGBDSDEs applied to the obstacle problem for some SPDEs with the nonlinear Neumann boundary condition and some stochastic control problems with delay.
The organization of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, some preliminaries, assumptions and definitions are given. In Section 3, we focus on the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of anticipated GBDSDEs. In Section 4, two comparison theorems are given, and in the last section, the conclusion and future work are presented.
2. Preliminaries
Throughout the paper, we use and to denote the norm of a vector and a matrix , respectively, where is the transpose of A. Let and be two mutually independent standard Browning motions, with values respectively in and on a complete probability space . Let be fixed constants. Let denote the class of P-null sets of . For any , we define:
where for any processes . It is worth noting that is not a filtration because is increasing and is decreasing. Let be a continuous, increasing and -adapted process on with . We will use the following notations: for any ,
- (i)
- is a -progressively measurable processes such that ;
- (ii)
- is a continuous and - progressively measurable processes such that ;
- (iii)
- is a -measurable random variable with .
Let , , . We make the following assumptions about :
Hypothesis 1 (H1).
For , we assume for each ,
Hypothesis 2 (H2).
For all , , , , , , we have
where , , are five constants.
Hypothesis 3 (H3).
For any , , we have
where are three adapted processes with values in and is a constant. The first and second inequalities on the above are the Lipschitze conditions for f and g with anticipated terms, respectively.
Definition 1.
A solution for AGDSDE is a pair such that for any ,
3. Existence and Uniqueness Theorem
In order to obtain the existence and uniqueness result, we need the following two priori estimates.
Proposition 1.
Assume that (A1), (A2), (H1), (H2) and (H3) hold. Ff is a solution of AGBDSDE (2) and , we get:
where is a constant.
Proof.
In the following, we assume is a bounded random variable, and then apply Fatou’s lemma to obtain the general result. From It’s formula, we have:
According to the assumptions (H2), (H3) and Yong’s inequality, for any , we get:
Consequently, we have:
Thus, choosing , and from Gronwall’s inequality, we can obtain:
Using the Burkholder–Davis–Gundy’s and above inequality, the desired result follows. □
Proposition 2.
Denote , then, for any , there exists a constant such that:
where is the total variation for process on the interval .
Proof.
Similar to Proposition 1, we assume is bounded random variable. From It’s formula, we have:
Through the assumptions (A1), (A2), (H2) and Yong’s inequality, for any , we get
Choosing , we have:
From Gronwall’s lemma, we get:
Using the Burkholder–Davis–Gundy’s and above inequality, the desired result follows. □
With the help of Propositions 1 and 2, we can establish the following existence and uniqueness theorem in this part.
Theorem 1.
Assume that (A1), (A2), (H1), (H2) and (H3) hold. Then, AGDDSDE (2) admits a unique solution .
Proof.
The uniqueness is easily given by Proposition 2. We now turn to prove its existence. For , let represent the set of progressively measurable processes , which satisfy:
and represents the space of progressively measurable processes which are such that:
We define
Giving , by Theorem 2.1 in [9], we can define a map from to through the equation:
In the following, we will use the Banach contraction principle to prove the existence. Let , ,
Consider the following equations:
For any , in view of It’s formula, we have:
Choosing , we have
Thus, is a strict contraction on equipped with the norm
The proof of existence is complete. □
4. Comparison Theorems
In this section, we consider one dimensional AGBDSDEs, that is, . Let us first give a comparison theorem of GBDSDEs, which will play a key role in what follows. Assume that, for , and satisfies (H1) and (H3). Then, according to Theorem 2.1 in [9], the following GBDSDE,
admits a unique solution for . We can assert the following comparison theorem, which generalizes the Theorem 2.2 in [11].
Lemma 1.
Let and be solutions of GBDSDEs (3) respectively. We suppose that (1) ; (2) ; (3) ; (4) . Then, .
Proof.
Without loss of generality, we assume that , a.s., and a.s., for all . Denote
Using It-Meyer’s formula and , a.s., we have:
In view of (H3), Young’s inequality and Jensen’s inequality, for any , we have:
and
Then, thanks to the above inequalities, we obtain:
From the Gronwall’s inequality, we can obtain:
Hence
□
Now let us turn to the study of the comparison theorem for anticipated GBDSDEs. For , we first consider the following anticipated BDSDE:
Let us assume that satisfy (A1) and (A2), , , and satisfies (H1) and (H3). Then, by Theorem 1, anticipated GBDSDE (4) admits a unique solution for .
Theorem 2.
Let and be solutions of AGBDSDEs (4) respectively. We suppose that (1) ; (2) ; (3) ; (4) or . Then .
Proof.
For , denote
then is the unique solution of the following GBDSDE,
According to Lemma 1, we can get
which implies
□
Let us give an example.
Example 1.
Let , , , , . Then by Theorem 2, we can obtain as long as the assumption (1) of Theorem 2 holds.
Next, we turn to the study of another comparison theorem for anticipated GBDSDEs. For , we consider the following anticipated GBDSDE:
We always assume that satisfy (A1) and (A2), , and satisfy (H1) and (H3). Then, by Theorem 1, anticipated GBDSDE (5) admits a unique solution for .
Theorem 3.
Let and be solutions of AGBDSDEs (5) respectively. We suppose that (1) ; (2) ; (3) ; (4) for any and is increasing, that is, , if with ; (5) . Then, .
Proof.
For , denote:
then is the unique solution of the following GBDSDEs,
Let , then the following GBDSDE admits a unique solution ,
According to the assumptions (1), (2), (4) and Lemma 1, we can get which implies Let be the unique solution for the following GBDSDE:
From Lemma 1 and assumptions (3), we can get which implies For , define:
According to Lemma 1 and by induction, we can get hence, for all
Set
Then for , satisfies
For any , apply It’s formula to , in view of (H3), Young’s inequality, Jensen’s inequality, we have:
Choosing , , , we have:
Thus, we have proved that is a Cauchy sequence in with the norm,
so it is also a Cauchy sequence in . Therefore, there exists such that , for and
Hence, it is easy to check that, as ,
Furthermore, we can prove through Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality. So, we conclude that solves the following AGBDSDE:
Then the uniqueness part of Theorem 1 shows that . Finally, letting in (6) yields . □
Let us give an example.
Example 2.
Let , , , , . Then by Theorem 3, we can derive as long as the assumption (1) of Theorem 3 holds.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we explore a class of anticipated AGBDSDEs. We proved the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of this kind of AGBDSDE. Moreover, two comparison theorems are also proved. In the coming future papers, we will focus on studying this topic and pay more attention to the applications of such equations.
Author Contributions
Writing-original draft preparation, T.W. and J.Y.; writing-review and editing, T.W. and J.Y.; Conceptualization, T.W. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their sincerest thanks to the reviewers for their valuable comments, which further improve the conclusion and proof process of the article.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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