Let Xt, t ∈ [0,T], be the solution of a stochastic differential equation, and let Xth, t ∈ [0,T], be the Euler approximation with the step h = Tn. It is known that, for a wide class of functions f, the error Ef(XTh) − Ef(XT) is O(h) or, more exactly, C · h + O(h2). We propose an extension...

We propose two new positive weak second-order approximations for the CIR equation dXt=(a−bXt)dt+σXtdBt based on splitting, at each step, the equation into the deterministic part dXt=(a−bXt)dt, which is solved exactly, and the stochastic part dXt=σXtdBt, which is approximated in...

The phenomenon of ‘synchronization’ of physical diffusion is widely discussed in the physical literature. In this paper, we give a simple rigorous proof of the synchronization for a one-dimensional diffusion including the one-dimensional counterpart of a physical diffusion described by a...

We consider scalar stochastic differential equations of the formdXt=μ(Xt)dt+σ(Xt)dBt,X0=x0,where B is a standard Brownian motion. Suppose that the coefficients are such that the solution X possesses the (a, b)-invariance property for some interval (a,b)⊂R:Xt∈(a,b) for all t≥0 if...