Abstract
In this paper, we study the applications of conformable backward stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motion and compensated random measure in nonlinear expectation. From the comparison theorem, we introduce the concept of g-expectation and give related properties of g-expectation. In addition, we find that the properties of conformable backward stochastic differential equations can be deduced from the properties of the generator g. Finally, we extend the nonlinear Doob–Meyer decomposition theorem to more general cases.
MSC:
26A33
1. Introduction
The initial research motivation of nonlinear expectations came from risk measurement and option pricing in financial applications. The Allais paradox, Ellsberg paradox and Simon’s “bounded rationality” theory, and so forth, all show that decision-making in reality is contrary to the hypothesis of expected utility theory. Economists have found that the linearity of classical mathematical expectation (that is, the additivity of probability measures) is the main reason for this kind of problem so researchers wanted to find a new tool which can not only retain some properties of classical mathematical expectations, but also solve financial problems with highly dynamic and complex characteristics.
In the 1950s, Choquet [1] extended the Lebesgue integral to non-additive measure and obtained the Choquet expectation. However, this nonlinear expectation does not have dynamic compatibility and is not suitable for solving practical financial problems. In 1997, Peng [2] introduced a new nonlinear expectation, namely the g-expectation, based on the backward stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian motion. The g-expectation retains all the basic properties of the classical expectation except linearity [3], and it can be applied to the dynamic risk measurement of actuarial and financial valuation. Subsequently, Royer [4] studied the backward stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian motion and Poisson random measure, and introduced the corresponding g-expectation and a large number of studies show that this g-expectation can be applied to financial problems (see [5,6,7,8,9]). Recently, Long et al. [10] proposed a multi-step scheme on time-space grids for solving backward stochastic differential equations, and Chen and Ye [11] investigated solutions of backward stochastic differential equations in the framework of Riemannian manifold. From the paper [12], we could get the averaging principle for backward stochastic differential equations and the solutions can be approximated by the solutions to averaged stochastic systems in the sense of mean square under some appropriate assumptions. In addition, coupled forward backward stochastic differential equations driven by the G-Brownian motion were studied in [13], while [14] investigated the solvability of fully coupled forward–backward stochastic differential equations with irregular coefficients.
The above papers concern research on integer order derivative, while the works of conformable type derivative are very few ([15,16,17,18,19,20]). The conformable derivative not only has some properties of fractional derivative, but also some properties of integer order derivatives. We discussed the necessity of studying conformable backward stochastic differential equations in [21]. In the present paper, we study g-expectation for conformable backward stochastic differential equations.
This paper is mainly divided into four parts. In the second section, we give some definitions and theorems. In the third section, we study the relationship between g-expectation and the filtered consensus expectation, and we give some properties of g-expectation. We find that the g-expectation can be considered as a nonlinear extension of the Girsanov transformation. In the final section, we prove the Doob–Meyer decomposition theorem under mild assumptions.
2. Preliminaries
Let be a standard Brownian motion defined on the complete probability space with the filtration satisfying the usual hypotheses of completeness and right continuity. denotes the Borel sets of and denotes the expected value. A stochastic process is a real function defined on such that is -measurable for any . A stochastic process V is called -adapted if is -measurable for any . The natural filtration is completed with sets of measure zero. By we denote the -field. A process is called -predictable if it is -adapted and -measurable. A process is called càdlàg if its trajectories are right-continuous and have left limits. The term means with respect to the probability measure. Inspired by [22], we define some spaces that we will use:
Furthermore, for any constant , we introduce the norms of spaces , and as:
Definition 1.
(see [2] (Definition 3.1)) A functional is called a nonlinear expectation if it satisfies the following properties:
(i) Strict monotonicity: if a.s., , and if a.s., ⇔ a.s.
(ii) preserving of constants: , for any constant c.
Definition 2.
(see [2] (Definition 3.2)) A nonlinear expectation is a filtration consistent expectation (-consistent expectation) if for any and , there exists a random variable such that where ξ is uniquely defined. We denote , which is called the conditional expectation of ζ with respect to . Therefore, we can write it as
Lemma 1.
(see [4](Lemma A.1)) Let be an increasing predictable process. We consider its decomposition as a sum of a continuous and a purely discontinuous process: . We also consider a càdlàg martingale , bounded in .
(i) For any stopping time τ such that ,
(ii) For any predictable stopping time τ such that ,
Lemma 2.
(see [21] (Theorem 3.5)) Suppose . Then, for any , we have
Lemma 3.
(see [22] (Theorem 2.5.1)) Let B be a -Brownian motion, N be a -random measure with compensator . Assume an equivalent probability measure with a positive -martingale:
where and are the -predictable processes satisfying
Then,
are -Brownian motion and a -random measure.
Lemma 4.
(see [22] (p. 42)) Let and . Then,
Lemma 5.
Consider the following family of conformable backward stochastic differential equation parameterized by
where , X is an adapted process, Y and Z are given control processes, is predictable, is a given Brownian motion and is a compensated random measure. For any we have .
Proof.
Following [23] (Lemma 3.4), we assume that . Then there exists such that the measure of non-zero. Define the following two stopping times:
Then we get . Since is right continuous, we have:
Suppose is the solution with the terminal value on . From (2) and the comparison theorem, we get . This is a contradiction. Thus, . □
3. The Main Results of g-Expectations
Consider the following conformable backward stochastic differential equation
where , X is an adapted process, Y and Z are given control processes, is predictable, is a given Brownian motion and is a compensated random measure.
Assumption 1.
(i) The generator is predictable and Lipschitz in x and y
where K is a positive constant.
(ii) For any z, , there exist constants and such that
where is predictable and satisfies .
(iii) For any , .
Notice that the comparison theorems in [21] follow from Definition 1. Hence a nonlinear expectation can be defined by conformable backward stochastic differential equations.
Definition 3.
Definition 4.
Proposition 1.
We have the following results:
(i) For , and , .
(ii) For any and , .
Proof.
Case (i). Let . For any and , consider Equation (3) and
where and the generator g satisfies Assumption 1. Multiplying by on both sides of (3) we get
where and . Notice that , and then,
Let , and (8) can be written as:
By the uniqueness of the conformable backward stochastic differential equation, we get . From Definition 4, we have .
Case (ii). For any and , we have . From the result of (i), one has:
where . Let and . If we choose , from Definition 1, and , we get . Hence . If we set , we get in the same way. Hence, we conclude that , that is, . □
Theorem 1.
The g-expectation is -consistent expectation.
Proof.
Let . For any and , consider the following equations:
where , and the generator g satisfies Assumption 1. Multiplying by on both sides of (7) we get:
where and . Notice that , and then,
Let , and (8) can be written as:
By the uniqueness of the conformable backward stochastic differential equation, we get . From Definition 3 and Proposition 1, we have:
Hence, there exists such that .
Next, we prove the uniqueness of . Assume that there exists another random variable such that and . Choose . According to the comparison theorem in [21] and Definition 3, we have , which is contrary to . On the other hand, if we choose , the result still does not hold. Hence .
Combining the existence and uniqueness of , we conclude that the g-expectation is -consistent expectation. The proof is complete. □
Next, we give two kinds of g-expectation with the special generators and .
Proposition 2.
Let and be -predictable processes. For any and , we define the following generators:
Then and , where
Proof.
Here we consider the case of . The proof of is similar. Consider the following equation
where , , and . Define
where and . Let , and from Lemma 3, we can get
where and ; note that and , we have
Taking the conditional expectation under the probability measure , we obtain . Notice that Assumption 1 is satisfied for the generator . From Definition 4, we get , that is, .
The proof is complete. □
Proposition 3.
Let be a g-expectation and ζ, , .
(i) Translation invariance: for any constant and , we have
where the generator g is independent of .
(ii) Homogeneity: for any constant and , we have
where the generator g is positively homogenous.
(iii) Convexity: for any and , the g-expectation is convex
if the generator g is convex, namely:
(iv) Sub-linearity and sub-additivity: the g-expectation is sub-linear, sub-additive and positively homogenous
if the generator g is positively homogenous and satisfies:
Proof.
Case (i). Consider the following conformable backward stochastic differential equations:
where , , and . Let
where and are the predictable processes. If we choose a generator which does not depend on , using Lemma 3, one has:
where , , and . Hence, we get and under the probability measure , that is, , and .
On the other hand, since the generator satisfies Assumption 1, we have and . Hence, we conclude that .
Case (ii). Let , and using the same method as in case (i), consider the following equation:
where , and . Choose
which is positively homogenous. With the framework of (12), we have
where , and . Then we get . From Definition 4 and , we have .
Case (iii). Let , and consider the following conformable backward stochastic differential equations
where , , , and .
Notice that:
and we see that:
where the nonnegative function depends on , and and . Let , and , and we have
where , , , and . Using the comparison theorem to the Equations (10) and (11), we see that . From Definition 4, one has
where , , and .
Case (iv). Similar to the proof process in case (iii), we get the result in case (iv).
The proof is complete. □
Theorem 2.
Suppose , . Then the g-expectation is equivalent to the expectation under a probability measure .
Proof.
Consider the following conformable backward stochastic differential equation
where , and .
It is clear that the generator satisfies Assumption 1. From Definition 4, we have .
Let
where and are the predictable processes. Using Lemma 3, one has:
where , and . Hence, we get under the probability measure . From the uniqueness of the solution, we conclude that . The proof is complete. □
4. Doob–Meyer Decomposition Theorem
We first give some definitions.
Definition 5.
The process is called a g-martingale if for any , we have and
Definition 6.
The process is called a g-supermartingale if for any , we have and
Theorem 3.
Assume that the generator g satisfies Assumption 1. If the process is a g-supermartingale on , then there exists a unique triple and a continuous increasing process such that:
where , , , and .
Proof.
Consider the following conformable backward stochastic differential equation:
where , , and .
Assume that , so Equation (13) can be written as:
where . From Lemma 5 and a comparison theorem, we get that the sequence is increasing and monotonically converges. Hence the sequence is continuous and increasing. From Equation (14), we have
where k depends on K and . Then,
for a depending on T, and a, and is a constant. Hence, there exists a constant such that:
where , and . Apply Lemma 2 to , and we have:
where , and . According to Lemma 4, Assumption 1 and Lemma 1, one has:
namely,
where is a constant and . Combining Equations (15) and (16), we conclude that there exists a constant C, independent of n, such that and
where , and . In addition, we also get
In other words, these sequences , and weakly converge in their spaces, and then for all stopping time , we have
and
and hence we have:
where a continuous increasing process satisfies and . □
Author Contributions
The contributions of all authors (M.L., M.F., J.-R.W. and D.O.) are equal. All the main results were developed together. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work is partially supported by the Training Object of High Level and Innovative Talents of Guizhou Province ((2016)4006), Major Research Project of Innovative Group in Guizhou Education Department ([2018]012), Guizhou Data Driven Modeling Learning and Optimization Innovation Team ([2020]5016), the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-18-0308, and the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA No. 1/0358/20 and No. 2/0127/20.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the referees for their careful reading of the manuscript and valuable comments. The authors thank the editor too.
Conflicts of Interest
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