Monday, January 11, 2016

Differential of integral of a stochastic process


Let Yt be


Yt=Ωg(Xu)du


where g(.) is a deterministic function and Ω=[t0,t] continuos partition of R. Furthermore let X be an Ito process Xu=X0+u0μ(s)ds+u0σ(s)dWPs

for som well behaved μ and σ and (WPs)0s is standard brownian motion under objective probability measure P.


What is differential of Yt?



dYt=?



Answer



Under some probability space (Ω,F,P) equipped with the (augmentation of the) natural filtration F=(Ft)t0 of a P-Wiener process (Wt)t0, consider the Itô process Xt=X0+t0μ(s)ds+t0σ(s)dWs


for some sufficiently well-behaved functions μ and σ, such that the stochastic integration can be defined in the Itô sense.


Define the integral Yt=t0Xudu


From (1) it follows that Yt=t0(X0+u0μ(s)ds+u0σ(s)dWs)du=X0t+t0u0μ(s)dsdu+t0u0σ(s)dWsdu

Using (stochastic) Fubini theorem one can permute the integration order and write Yt=X0t+t0tsμ(s)duds+t0tsσ(s)dudWs=X0t+t0(ts)μ(s)ds+t0(ts)σ(s)dWs=(X0+t0μ(s)ds+t0σ(s)dWs)tt0sμ(s)dst0sσ(s)dWs=Xttt0sμ(s)dsclassic integralt0sσ(s)dWsItô integral
And one can now appeal to the usual "differential" definition (whether from standard calculus or Itô calculus) to write: dYt=Xtdt+tdXt+0d(Xtt)Itô's lemmatμ(t)dttσ(t)dWt=Xtdt+tdXtt(μ(t)dt+σ(t)dWt)dXt=Xtdt
Now as mentioned in the comments, because any smooth function g(Xt) will also be an Itô process, you can repeat the reasoning with ˜Xt:=g(Xt) to get, for your particular problem, dYt=˜Xtdt=g(Xt)dt


[Remark] Should Xu=X(u)X(t,u) with an additional, explicit dependence on t things can get more complicated. See this related question on math SE.


[Edit] Just saw that this was discussed here as well.


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