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Corollary 7.5.1. Let \( n \in \mathbb{N} \) and \( F, G \in \mathop{\bigcap }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{{n + 1}}\mathbb{D}\left( {\Delta }_{k}\right) \) . We have
\[ \operatorname{Cov}\left( {F, G}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{n}{\left( -1\right) }^{k + 1}\mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{\int }_{{\Delta }_{k}}\left( {{\widetilde{D}}_{{t}_{k}}\cdots {\widetilde{D}}_{{t}_{1}}F}\right) \left( {{\widetilde{D}}_{{t}_{k}}\cdots {\widetilde{D}}_{{t}_{1}}G}\right) d{t}_{1}\cdots d{...
Yes
Proposition 7.5.2. The mapping \( \Theta : {L}^{p}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow {L}^{p}\left( W\right) \) is an isometry. Further, it satisfies the intertwining relation\n\n\[ {2\Theta }{\left| \widetilde{D}F\right| }_{{L}^{2}\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) }^{2} = {\left| D\Theta F\right| }_{{L}^{2}\left( {\mathb...
Proof. The proposition follows from the fact that \( F \) and \( {\Theta F} \) have same distribution since the half sum of two independent Gaussian squares has an exponential distribution. Relation (7.5.2) follows by a direct calculation.
No
Corollary 7.5.3. Let \( F \in \operatorname{Dom}\left( \widetilde{D}\right) \) . We have\n\n\[ \mathbb{P}\left( {F - \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack F\right\rbrack \geq x}\right) \leq \exp \left( {-\frac{{x}^{2}}{2\parallel \widetilde{D}F{\parallel }_{{L}^{2}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}_{ + },{L}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) }\right)...
In particular if \( F \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{T} \) measurable and \( \parallel \widetilde{D}F{\parallel }_{\infty } \leq K \) then\n\n\[ \mathbb{P}\left( {F - \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack F\right\rbrack \geq x}\right) \leq \exp \left( {-\frac{{x}^{2}}{2{K}^{2}T}}\right) ,\;x \geq 0. \]
Yes
Corollary 7.5.4. Let \( F \in \operatorname{Dom}\left( \widetilde{D}\right) \) . Then\n\n\[ \mathbb{P}\left( {F - \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack F\right\rbrack \geq x}\right) \leq \exp \left( {-\frac{{x}^{2}}{4\parallel \widetilde{D}F{\parallel }_{{L}^{\infty }\left( {\Omega ,{L}^{2}\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) }\right) }^...
The above result can also be obtained via logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, i.e. by application of Corollary 2.5 of [76] to Theorem 0.7 in [4] (or Relation (4.4) in [76] for a formulation in terms of exponential random variables). A sufficient condition for the exponential integrability of \( F \) is \( {\begin{Vmatrix...
Yes
Proposition 7.6.3. The Lie bracket \( \{ u, v\} \) of \( u, v \in \mathcal{U} \) satisfies\n\n\[ \{ u, v\} = {\nabla }_{u}v - {\nabla }_{v}u \]\n\n(7.6.6)\n\ni.e. the connection defined by \( \nabla \) has a vanishing torsion\n\n\[ T\left( {u, v}\right) = {\nabla }_{u}v - {\nabla }_{v}u - \{ u, v\} = 0,\;u, v \in \math...
Proof. For all \( u, v \in {\mathcal{C}}_{c}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) \) we have\n\n\[ \left( {{\widetilde{D}}_{u}{\widetilde{D}}_{v} - {\widetilde{D}}_{v}{\widetilde{D}}_{u}}\right) {T}_{n} = - {\widetilde{D}}_{u}{\int }_{0}^{{T}_{n}}{v}_{s}{ds} + {\widetilde{D}}_{v}{\int }_{0}^{{T}_{n}}{u}_{s}{ds} \]...
Yes
Proposition 7.6.4. The Riemannian curvature tensor \( R \) of \( \nabla \) vanishes on \( \mathcal{U} \), i.e.\n\n\[ R\left( {u, v}\right) h \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\lbrack {{\nabla }_{u},{\nabla }_{v}}\right\rbrack h - {\nabla }_{\{ u, v\} }h = 0,\;u, v, h \in \mathcal{U}. \]
Proof. We have, letting \( \widetilde{u}\left( t\right) = - {\int }_{0}^{t}{u}_{s}{ds}, t \in {\mathbb{R}}_{ + } \) :\n\n\[ \left\lbrack {{\nabla }_{u},{\nabla }_{v}}\right\rbrack h = \widetilde{u}\dot{\widehat{{\nabla }_{v}h}} - \widetilde{v}\dot{\widehat{{\nabla }_{u}h}} = \widetilde{u}\dot{\widehat{\widetilde{v}\dot...
Yes
Proposition 7.6.5. The bracket \( \{ \cdot , \cdot \} \) satisfies the Jacobi identity\n\n\[ \n\{ \{ u, v\}, w\} + \{ w,\{ u, v\} \} + \{ v,\{ u, w\} \} = 0,\;u, v, w \in {\mathcal{C}}_{c}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) ,\n\]\n\nhence \( \mathcal{U} \) is a Lie algebra under \( \{ \cdot , \cdot \} \) .
Proof. The vanishing of \( R\left( {u, v}\right) \) in Proposition 7.6.4 shows that\n\n\[ \n\left\lbrack {{\nabla }_{u},{\nabla }_{v}}\right\rbrack = {\nabla }_{\{ u, v\} }h,\;u, v \in \mathcal{U},\n\]\n\nhence\n\n\[ \n{\nabla }_{\{ \{ u, v\}, w\} } + {\nabla }_{\{ w,\{ u, v\} \} } + {\nabla }_{\{ v,\{ u, w\} \} }\n\]\...
Yes
Lemma 7.6.6. We have the commutation relation\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{D}}_{u}\widetilde{\delta }\left( v\right) = \widetilde{\delta }\left( {{\nabla }_{u}v}\right) + \langle u, v{\rangle }_{{L}^{2}\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) }, \]\n\n(7.6.8)\n\n\( u, v \in {\mathcal{C}}_{c}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) \)...
Proof. We have\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{D}}_{u}\widetilde{\delta }\left( v\right) = - \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{\infty }\dot{v}\left( {T}_{k}\right) {\int }_{0}^{{T}_{k}}{u}_{s}{ds} \]\n\n\[ \n= - \widetilde{\delta }\left( {\dot{v} \cdot {\int }_{0}^{ \cdot }{u}_{s}{ds}}\right) - {\int }_{0}^{\infty }\dot{v}\left( t\...
Yes
Theorem 7.6.8. We have for \( u \in \mathcal{U} \) :\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\left| \widetilde{\delta }\left( u\right) \right| }^{2}\right\rbrack + \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {\parallel \widetilde{D}u{\parallel }_{{L}^{2}\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) \land {L}^{2}\left( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }\right) }^{2}}\right\rbrac...
Proof. Relation (7.6.10) for \( u = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{h}_{i}{F}_{i} \in \mathcal{U} \) follows from Relation (7.6.7) and Proposition 7.6.7.
No
Lemma 8.1.2. The following statements are equivalent:\n\ni) the portfolio \( {V}_{t} \) is self-financing,\n\nii) we have\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{V}}_{t} = {\widetilde{V}}_{0} + {\int }_{0}^{t}{\sigma }_{u}{\eta }_{u}{\widetilde{S}}_{u}d{M}_{u},\;t \in {\mathbb{R}}_{ + }, \n\]\n\n(8.1.5)\n\niii) we have\n\n\[ \n{V}_{t} = {...
Proof. First, note that (8.1.5) is clearly equivalent to (8.1.6). Next, the self-financing condition (8.1.4) shows that\n\n\[ \nd{V}_{t} = {\zeta }_{t}d{A}_{t} + {\eta }_{t}d{S}_{t} \n\]\n\n\[ \n= {\zeta }_{t}{A}_{t}{r}_{t}{dt} + {\eta }_{t}{r}_{t}{S}_{t}{dt} + {\sigma }_{t}{\eta }_{t}{S}_{t}d{M}_{t} \n\]\n\n\[ \n= {r}...
Yes
Given \( F \in {L}^{2}\left( \Omega \right) \), let\n\n\[{\eta }_{t} = \frac{\exp \left( {-{\int }_{t}^{T}{r}_{s}{ds}}\right) }{{\sigma }_{t}{S}_{t}}\mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{D}_{t}F \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}}\right\rbrack\]\n\n(8.2.1)\n\n\[{\zeta }_{t} = \frac{\exp \left( {-{\int }_{t}^{T}{r}_{u}{du}}\right) \mathbb{E}\le...
Proof. Applying (8.2.2) at \( t = 0 \) we get\n\n\[ \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack F\right\rbrack \exp \left( {-{\int }_{0}^{T}{r}_{u}{du}}\right) = {V}_{0} \]\n\nhence from (8.2.2), the definition (8.2.1) of \( {\eta }_{t} \) and the Clark formula we obtain\n\n\[ {V}_{t} = {\zeta }_{t}{A}_{t} + {\eta }_{t}{S}_{t} \]\n\n\[ = \...
Yes
Proposition 8.4.1. There exists a measurable function \( \widetilde{C} \) on \( {\mathbb{R}}_{ + } \times \mathbb{R} \) such that \( \widetilde{C}\left( {t, \cdot }\right) \) is \( {\mathcal{C}}^{1} \) for all \( t \in {\mathbb{R}}_{ + } \), and\n\n\[ \n{S}_{t}\widetilde{C}\left( {t,{Y}_{t}}\right) = \mathbb{E}\left\lb...
Proof. With the above notation, the price at time \( t \) of the Asian option\n\nbecomes\n\[ \n\mathbb{E}\left\lbrack {{\mathrm{e}}^{-{\int }_{t}^{T}{r}_{s}{ds}}{S}_{T}{\left( {Y}_{T}\right) }^{ + } \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{t}}\right\rbrack \n\]\n\nFor \( 0 \leq s \leq t \leq T \), we have\n\n\[ \nd\left( {{S}_{t}{Y}_{t}}\r...
Yes
Proposition 9.4.1. Let \( F \in {L}^{2}\left( \Omega \right) \) . Then \( {\left( \mathbb{E}\left\lbrack F \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{n}\right\rbrack \right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) converges to \( F \) a.s.
Proof. This is a consequence of the martingale convergence theorem, cf. e.g. Theorem 27.1 in [67].
No
Proposition 9.8.2. Assume that \( T \) is closable. If \( {\left( {F}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) and \( {\left( {G}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) converge to \( F \in \operatorname{Dom}\left( T\right) \) and \( {\left( T{F}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) and \( {\left( T{G}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{...
Proof. Indeed, under the above assumptions, \( {\left( T\left( {F}_{n} - {G}_{n}\right) \right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) converges to \( U - V \), hence \( U = V \) by the closability condition.
Yes
Lemma 1.2. Let \( \mathcal{A} \subseteq \mathcal{F} \subseteq {2}^{\Omega } \) . Suppose \( \mathcal{A} \) is a \( \pi \) -system and \( \mathcal{F} \) is a \( \lambda \) -system. Then \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{A}\right) \subseteq \mathcal{F} \) .
Proof. Let\n\n\[ \widehat{\mathcal{G}} \triangleq \bigcap \{ \mathcal{G} \supseteq \mathcal{A} \mid \mathcal{G}\text{ is a }\lambda \text{-system }\} \subseteq \mathcal{F}. \]\n\nThen \( \widehat{\mathcal{G}} \) is the smallest \( \lambda \) -system containing \( \mathcal{A} \) . Set\n\n\[ \widehat{\mathcal{F}} \triang...
Yes
Example 1.3. Let \( \Omega = \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack ,\mathcal{F} \) the set of all Lebesgue measurable sets in \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \), and \( \mathbf{P} \) the Lebesgue measure on \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) . Then one can show that \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) ...
\[ \mathbf{P}\left( A\right) = {\int }_{\{ \omega \in \Omega \mid x\left( \omega \right) \geq 0\} }d\mathbf{P}\left( \omega \right) . \]
Yes
Proposition 1.5. Let \( \Omega \) be a Polish space and \( \mathcal{F} = \mathcal{B}\left( \Omega \right) \) . Then:\n\n(i) \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}}\right) \) is standard, and it is countably determined.\n\n(ii) For any \( {\Omega }^{\prime } \in \mathcal{F} \), let \( {\mathcal{F}}^{\prime } = {\Omega }^{\prime...
See Parthasarathy [1, pp. 133-134] and Ikeda-Watanabe [1, p. 13] for a proof and descriptions.
No
Lemma 1.6. Let \( \mathcal{A} \) be a \( \pi \) -system on \( \Omega \) . Let \( \mathcal{H} \) be a linear space of functions from \( \Omega \) to \( \mathbb{R} \) such that\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} 1 \in \mathcal{H};\;{I}_{A} \in \mathcal{H},\;\forall A \in \mathcal{A}; \\ {\varphi }_{i} \in \mathcal{H},0 \leq ...
Proof. Set\n\n\[ \mathcal{F} = \left\{ {A \subseteq \Omega \mid {I}_{A} \in \mathcal{H}}\right\} \]\n\nThen \( \mathcal{F} \) is a \( \lambda \) -system containing \( \mathcal{A} \) . Thus, by Lemma 1.2, \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{A}\right) \subseteq \mathcal{F} \) .\n\nNow, for any \( \sigma \left( \mathcal{A}\right) \...
Yes
Proposition 1.8. Let \( \mathcal{G} \) be a sub- \( \sigma \) -field of \( \mathcal{F} \) . Then\n\n(i) Map \( E\left( {\cdot \mid \mathcal{G}}\right) : {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{1}\left( {\Omega ;{\mathbb{R}}^{m}}\right) \rightarrow {L}_{\mathcal{G}}^{1}\left( {\Omega ;{\mathbb{R}}^{m}}\right) \) is linear and bounded.\n\n(i...
Proofs of the above results are straightforward by the definitions.
No
Proposition 1.10. Let \( \\left( {\\Omega ,\\mathcal{F},\\mathbf{P}}\\right) \) be a standard probability space and \( \\left( {S,\\mathcal{B}}\\right) \) a measurable space. Let \( \\xi : \\left( {\\Omega ,\\mathcal{F}}\\right) \\rightarrow \\left( {S,\\mathcal{B}}\\right) \) be a random variable and \( {\\mathbf{P}}_...
For proofs of Propositions 1.9 and 1.10, see Parthasarathy [1, pp. 145- \( {150}\\rbrack \) .
No
Lemma 1.11. Let \( \xi : \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}}\right) \rightarrow \left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{\ell },\mathcal{B}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{\ell }\right) }\right) \) be a random variable, and \( X \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{1}\left( {\Omega ;{\mathbb{R}}^{m}}\right) \) . If \( E\left( {g\left( \xi \right) X}\right) = 0 \) for an...
Proof. Define\n\n\[ \mathcal{H} \triangleq \{ \varphi : \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}}\right) \rightarrow \left( {\mathbb{R},\mathcal{B}\left( \mathbb{R}\right) }\right) \mid \varphi \text{ is measurable,}E\left( {\varphi X}\right) = 0\} \]\n\nand\n\n\[ \mathcal{A} \triangleq \left\{ {{\xi }^{-1}\left( B\right) \mid B = ...
Yes
Proposition 1.12. Let \( {\xi }_{i} : \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F}}\right) \rightarrow \left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{{m}_{i}},\mathcal{B}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{{m}_{i}}\right) }\right) \) be a sequence of random variables \( \left( {i = 1,2,\ldots }\right) \) . Let \( \mathcal{G} \triangleq \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{i}\sigma \lef...
Proof. The \
No
Proposition 1.16. Let \( \Lambda \subseteq \mathcal{P}\left( U\right) \) . Then:\n\n(i) \( \Lambda \) is relatively compact if it is tight.\n\n(ii) If \( \left( {U, d}\right) \) is complete (i.e., it is a polish space), then \( \Lambda \) is tight if it is relatively compact.
Sec Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 6-8] for proofs of Propositions 1.14 and 1.16.
No
Corollary 1.17. If \( \left( {U, d}\right) \) is compact, then any \( \Lambda \subseteq \mathcal{P}\left( U\right) \) is tight and relatively compact. In particular, \( \mathcal{P}\left( U\right) \) is compact.
The proof is straightforward by Definition 1.15 and Proposition 1.16. See also Parthasarathy [1, p. 45, Theorem 6.4].
No
Theorem 1.20. Let \( \\left( {U, d}\\right) \) be a Polish space and \( \\left\\{ {{\\mathbf{P}}_{i}, i = 1,2,\\ldots ,\\mathbf{P}}}\\right\\} \\subseteq \) \( \\mathcal{P}\\left( U\\right) \) be such that \( {\\mathbf{P}}_{i} \) converges to \( \\mathbf{P} \) weakly. Then on some probability space \( \\left( {\\wideha...
This theorem is due to Skorohod. See Billingsley [1] for a proof.
No
Theorem 2.2. Let \( \mathbb{F} = \left\{ {{F}_{{t}_{1},\ldots ,{t}_{j}}\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{j}}\right), j \geq 1}\right\} \) be a family of functions satisfying the symmetry and compatibility conditions. Then there exists a probability space \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) and a stochastic ...
For a proof, see Parthasarathy [1, pp. 143-144].
No
Example 2.4. Let \( \Omega = \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack, T \geq 1 \) , \( \mathbf{P} \) the Lebesgue measure, \( X\left( {t,\omega }\right) \equiv 0 \) , and\n\n\[ \bar{X}\left( {t,\omega }\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 0, & \omega \neq t \\ 1, & \omega = t \end{array}\right. \]\n\nThen \( X\left( t\right) \)...
But each sample path \( X\left( {\cdot ,\omega }\right) \) is continuous, and none of the sample paths \( \bar{X}\left( {\cdot ,\omega }\right) \) is continuous. In the present case, we actually have\n\n\[ \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{{t \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack }}{N}_{t} = \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \equi...
Yes
Proposition 2.8. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},\{ \mathcal{F}{\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space, and let \( X\left( t\right) \) be measurable and \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -adapted. Then there exists an \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t > 0} ...
For a proof, see Meyer [1, p. 68].
No
Lemma 2.11. The \( \sigma \) -field \( \sigma \left( {\mathbf{C}}_{T}\right) \) generated by \( {\mathbf{C}}_{T} \) coincides with the Borel \( \sigma \) -field \( \mathcal{B}\left( {{\mathbf{W}}^{m}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack }\right) \) of \( {\mathbf{W}}^{m}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \) .
Proof. Let \( 0 \leq {t}_{1} < {t}_{2} < \cdots < {t}_{j} \leq T \) be given. We define a map \( \mathcal{T} : {\mathbf{W}}^{m}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{jm} \) as follows:\n\n\[ \mathcal{T}\left( \zeta \right) = \left( {\zeta \left( {t}_{1}\right) ,\zeta \left( {t}_{2}\right) ,\ldots ,\...
Yes
Lemma 2.12. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a complete probability space and \( \xi \) : \( \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times \Omega \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{m} \) a continuous process. Then there exists an \( {\Omega }_{0} \in \mathcal{F} \) with \( \mathbf{P}\left( {\Omega }_{0}\rig...
Proof. Let \( t \in \left\lbrack {0, s}\right\rbrack \) and \( E \in \mathcal{B}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{m}\right) \) be fixed. Then \[ {B}_{t} \triangleq \left\{ {\zeta \in {\mathbf{W}}^{m}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \mid \zeta \left( t\right) \in E}\right\} \in {\mathbf{C}}_{s}, \] and \[ \omega \in {\xi }^{-1}\left...
Yes
Proposition 2.13. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual condition, and let \( \xi \) be an \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -adapted process. Then for any \( s \in \left\lbrack {0...
Proof. By definition, for any \( t \in \left\lbrack {0, s}\right\rbrack \) , \[ \mathbf{P}\left( {\left\{ {{\omega }^{\prime } \mid \xi \left( {t,{\omega }^{\prime }}\right) = \xi \left( {t,\omega }\right) }\right\} \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right) \left( \omega \right) \] \[ = E\left( {{I}_{\left\{ {\omega }^{\prime } \...
Yes
Corollary 2.15. Let \( X\\left( \\cdot \\right) \) be an \( m \) -dimensional stochastic process over \( \\left\\lbrack {0, T}\\right\\rbrack \) such that\n\n\[ E{\\left| X\\left( t\\right) - X\\left( s\\right) \\right| }^{\\alpha } \\leq K{\\left| t - s\\right| }^{1 + \\beta },\\;\\forall t, s \\in \\left\\lbrack {0, ...
See Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 17-20] for proofs of Theorem 2.14 and Corollary 2.15.
No
(i) A map \( \tau : \Omega \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0,\infty }\right\rbrack \) is a stopping time if and only if\n\n(3.3)\n\n\[ \left( {\tau < t}\right) \in {\mathcal{F}}_{t},\;\forall t > 0. \]
Proof. We first prove (ii). If \( A \in {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \), then for any \( t > 0 \) ,\n\n(3.5)\n\n\[ A \cap \left( {\tau < t}\right) = \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{{n \geq 1}}\left\{ {A \cap \left( {\tau \leq t - \frac{1}{n}}\right) }\right\} \in {\mathcal{F}}_{t} \]\n\nConversely, if (3.4) holds, then for any \( t...
Yes
Let \( X\left( t\right) \) be \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -adapted and continuous. Let \( E \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^{m} \) be an open set. Then the first hitting time of the process \( X\left( t\right) \) to \( E \), \[ {\sigma }_{E}\left( \omega \right) \triangleq \inf \{ t \geq 0 \mid X\left(...
Let us prove these two facts. First of all, for any \( s > 0 \), we claim that \[ \left( {{\sigma }_{E} < s}\right) = \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{{r \in \mathbf{Q}, r < s}}\left( {X\left( r\right) \in E}\right) \in {\mathcal{F}}_{s}. \] To prove the equality, let \( \omega \) be such that \( {\sigma }_{E}\left( \omega \r...
Yes
Proposition 3.5. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual condition. Let \( X\left( t\right) \) be an \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -progressively measurable process and \( \tau \...
Proof. We first prove that \( X\left( {\tau \land t}\right) \) is \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -progressively measurable. To this end, by Proposition 3.4, the process \( \tau \land t \) is \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -progressively measurable. Thus, for each \( t \geq ...
Yes
Proposition 3.6. Let \( \tau \) be a stopping time and \( \xi \) a random variable. Then \( \xi \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) -measurable if and only if for all \( t \geq 0,\xi {I}_{\left( \tau \leq t\right) } \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t} \) -measurable.
Proof. If \( \xi \) is \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) measurable, then there exists a sequence of \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau } \) - measurable simple functions\n\n(3.18)\n\n\[{\xi }_{j} \equiv \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i \geq 1}}{\xi }_{j}^{i}{I}_{{A}_{j}^{i}} \rightarrow \xi ,\text{ as }j \rightarrow \infty ,\;\mathbf{P}\text{...
Yes
Proposition 3.7. Let \( \sigma \) and \( \tau \) be stopping times and \( X \) an integrable random variable. Then\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {I}_{\left( \sigma > \tau \right) }E\left( {X \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau }}\right) = E\left( {{I}_{\left( \sigma > \tau \right) }X \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau }}\right) = {I}_{\le...
Proof. By Proposition 3.4-(iii), we have the first equalities in the first two assertions. Now, since\n\n\[ {I}_{\left( \sigma > \tau \right) }E\left( {X \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau }}\right) {I}_{\left( \sigma \land \tau \leq t\right) } = E\left( {X \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{\tau }}\right) {I}_{\left( \tau \leq t\right) }{I}_{...
Yes
Proposition 4.2. Let \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) and \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{G}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) be two families of sub- \( \sigma \) - fields of \( \mathcal{F} \) with \( {\mathcal{G}}_{t} \subseteq {\mathcal{F}}_{t},\forall t \geq 0 \) . If \( X\left( t\right) \) is an \( {\left\{ ...
Proof. The first assertion follows easily from Proposition 1.8-(vi) and the definition of a martingale, while the second one follows from the first along with Proposition 1.8-(iv).
No
Proposition 4.3. Let \( X\left( t\right) \) be a submartingale and \( \varphi : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) a nondecreasing convex function such that \( {E\varphi }\left( {X\left( t\right) }\right) \) exists for all \( t \geq 0 \) . Then \( \varphi \left( {X\left( t\right) }\right) \) is a submartingale. In pa...
Proof. By the monotonicity of \( \varphi \left( \cdot \right) \) and Jensen’s inequality (see (1.36)), we have\n\n(4.2)\n\n\[ \varphi \left( {X\left( s\right) }\right) \leq \varphi \left( {E\left( {X\left( t\right) \mid {\mathcal{F}}_{s}}\right) }\right) \leq E\left( {\varphi \left( {X\left( t\right) }\right) \mid {\ma...
Yes
Theorem 4.4. Let \( X\left( t\right) \) be an \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -submartingale. Then there exists a \( \mathbf{P} \) -null set \( N \) such that for any \( \omega \in \bar{\Omega } \smallsetminus N \), the following limits exist:\n\n(4.3)\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{r \in \mathbf{Q...
If we define\n\n(4.4)\n\n\[ \widehat{X}\left( t\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{r \in \mathbf{Q}, r \downarrow t}}X\left( r\right) ,\;\mathbf{P}\text{-a.s.,}\forall t \geq 0, \]\n\nand define \( \widehat{X}\left( t\right) \) as an arbitrary constant on \( N \), then \( \widehat{X}\left( t\right) \) is a submartingale ...
Yes
Theorem 4.6. (Optional sampling theorem) Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual condition. Let \( X\left( t\right) \) be a right-continuous \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -martin...
See Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 32-34] for proofs of Theorems 4.4-4.6.
No
Corollary 4.7. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be the same as in Theorem 4.6. Let \( \sigma \leq \tau \) be two bounded stopping times. Then, for any \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -martingale (resp. submartingale, supermart...
Proof. Let\n\n(4.11)\n\n\[ \n{\sigma }_{t} = \sigma {I}_{\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }\left( t\right) + \tau {I}_{\left( 1,\infty \right) }\left( t\right) ,\;t \geq 0.\n\]\n\nThen we have (4.9). Appealing to Theorem 4.6 by taking \( t > 1 \) and \( s \leq 1 \) , one obtains (4.10).
No
Corollary 4.8. Let \( X\\left( t\\right) \) be an \( {\\left\{ {\\mathcal{F}}_{t}\\right\} }_{t \\geq 0} \) -martingale, and let \( \\sigma \\leq \\tau \) be two stopping times. Then\n\n(4.12)\n\n\[ E\\left\\lbrack {X\\left( {t \\land \\tau }\\right) - X\\left( {t \\land \\sigma }\\right) \\mid {\\mathcal{F}}_{\\sigma ...
Proof. In view of Propositions 3.4 and 3.5, \( t \\land \\tau \) and \( t \\land \\sigma \) are stopping times with \( t \\land \\tau \\geq t \\land \\sigma \), P-a.s., and \( X\\left( {t \\land \\tau }\\right) \) is \( {\\mathcal{F}}_{t} \) -measurable. Thus, by Corollary 4.7 and Proposition 3.7, we obtain\n\n(4.13)\n...
Yes
Proposition 5.2. The Itô integral has the following properties:\n\n(i) For any \( f, g \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;\mathbb{R}}\right) \) and stopping times \( \sigma \) and \( \tau \) with \( \sigma \leq \tau \) (P-a.s. ),\n\n(5.24)\n\n\[ E\left\{ {{\int }_{t \land \sigma }^{t \land \tau }f\left( r\right) {dW...
See Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 49-51] for a proof.
No
Proposition 5.3. Let \( f \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{m}}\right) \) and \( \sigma ,\widehat{\sigma } \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times m}}\right) \) . Then, for all \( 0 \leq s \leq t \leq T \) , (5.37) \[ E\left\{ {{\int }_{s}^{t}{f}_{i}\left( r\right) d{W}^{i}\left( ...
The proof is straightforward.
No
Theorem 5.4. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be given as before and let \( W\left( t\right) \) be an \( m \) -dimensional standard Brownian motion. Let \( \sigma \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2,{loc}}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times m}}\right) \) . Th...
See Karatzas-Shreve [3, p. 166] for a proof of Theorem 5.4.
No
Theorem 5.5. (Itô’s formula) Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual condition, \( W\left( t\right) \) an \( m \) -dimensional \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) - Brownian motion, \(...
For a proof of the Itô formula, see Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 66-73] (for a more general case).
No
Corollary 5.6. Let \( Z \) and \( \widehat{Z} \) be \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) -valued continuous processes satisfying\n\n(5.47)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dZ}\left( t\right) = b\left( t\right) {dt} + \sigma \left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) \\ d\widehat{Z}\left( t\right) = \widehat{b}\left( t\right) {dt} + \widehat...
This lemma can be easily proved by Itô’s formula with \( F\left( {x, y}\right) = \langle x, y\rangle \) for \( \left( {x, y}\right) \in {\mathbb{R}}^{2n} \) .
Yes
Theorem 5.7. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual condition. Assume that \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) is the natural filtration generated by an \( m \) -dimensional standard ...
A proof can be found in Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 80-83].
Yes
Theorem 5.10. Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual condition. Let \( M \in {\mathcal{M}}^{2}{\left\lbrack 0, T\right\rbrack }^{n} \) (resp. \( {\mathcal{M}}^{2,{loc}}{\left\lbrack 0, T\right\rbrack }...
See Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 90-92] for a proof.
No
Lemma 6.1. Let \( b \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) . Let \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) be given satisfying the usual condition and let \( X \) be a continuous \( {\mathbb{R}}^{\bar{n}} \) -valued \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}...
Proof. For any \( t \in \lbrack 0,\infty ) \), let \( \Phi : \left\lbrack {0, t}\right\rbrack \times \Omega \rightarrow \left\lbrack {0, t}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbf{W}}^{n} \) be the map \( \left( {s,\omega }\right) \mapsto \left( {s, X\left( {\cdot ,\omega }\right) }\right) \) . Then\n\n(6.1)\n\n\[ b\left( {s, X\l...
Yes
Theorem 6.8. Let \( b \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) and \( \sigma \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n \times m}\right) \) . Then (6.2) admits a unique strong solution if and only if for any probability measure \( \mu \) on \( \left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n},\mathcal{B}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\r...
By and large, Theorem 6.8 tells that strong existence and uniqueness is equivalent to weak existence plus pathwise uniqueness.
No
Theorem 6.9. Pathwise uniqueness implies weak uniqueness.
See Karatzas-Shreve [3, pp. 308-311] for proofs of Theorems 6.8-6.9.
No
Theorem 6.10. Let \( b \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) and \( \sigma \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n \times m}\right) \) be bounded and continuous. Then there exists a weak solution of (6.2).
The proof can be found in Ikeda-Watanabe [1, pp. 155-158].
Yes
Theorem 6.11. Let \( \sigma \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n \times n}\right) \) be bounded and continuous, and let \( b \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) be bounded. Moreover, assume that \( \sigma {\left( t, x\right) }^{-1} \) exists for all \( \left( {t, x}\right) \in \lbrack 0,\infty...
Proof. Since \( \sigma \in {\mathcal{A}}^{n}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) is bounded and continuous, by Theorem 6.10, equation (6.19) has a weak solution \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}, W, X}\right) \) . By the assumptions, it is easily verified that (6.20)...
No
Theorem 6.12. Under the same assumptions of Theorem 6.11, if in addition, \( \sigma \left( {t, x}\right) \) is Lipschitz in \( x \), uniformly in \( t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \), then weak uniqueness holds for solutions of (6.2).
Proof. Since \( \sigma \left( {t, x}\right) \) is Lipschitz in \( x \), uniformly in \( t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \) ,(6.19) has a unique strong solution by Theorem 6.3. This implies weak uniqueness by Theorems 6.8 and 6.9. Therefore, the conclusion follows from the above observation.
Yes
Theorem 6.13. Let \( b : \lbrack 0,\infty ) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) and \( \sigma : \lbrack 0,\infty ) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \rightarrow {\mathcal{S}}^{n} \) be measurable and bounded. Moreover, assume that \( \sigma \) is uniformly positive definite, namely, there is \( \delta > 0 \) ...
For a proof see Krylov [2, pp. 87-91].
No
Theorem 6.14. For any \( \xi \in {L}_{{\mathcal{F}}_{0}}^{2}\left( {\Omega ;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \), equation (6.25) admits a unique strong solution \( X\left( \cdot \right) \), which is represented by the following:\n\n(6.27)\n\n\[ X\left( t\right) = \Phi \left( t\right) \xi + \Phi \left( t\right) {\int }_{0}^{t}\...
Proof. By Theorem 6.3, we see that (6.28) admits a unique solution \( \Phi \left( \cdot \right) \). To show that \( \Phi {\left( t\right) }^{-1} \) exists, let \( \Psi \left( \cdot \right) \) be the unique strong solution of (6.29), which exists by, once again, Theorem 6.3. Applying Itô’s formula to \( \Phi \left( t\ri...
Yes
Theorem 6.16. Let \( \left( {RC}\right) \) hold. Then, for any \( \xi \in {L}_{{\mathcal{F}}_{0}}^{\ell }\left( {\Omega ;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \left( {\ell \geq 1}\right) \) , (6.34) admits a unique solution \( X \) such that for any \( T > 0 \) , \n\n\( \left( {6.40}\right) \)\n\n\[ \nE\mathop{\max }\limits_{{0 \le...
The proof of this theorem is the same as that of Theorem 6.3.
No
Theorem 6.17. Under (W), equation (6.43) has a unique strong solution. As a consequence, both pathwise uniqueness and weak existence and uniqueness hold.
Proof. Given any filtered probability space \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},{\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0},\mathbf{P}}\right) \) along with an \( m \) -dimensional \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}\right\} }_{t \geq 0} \) -Brownian motion \( W\left( \cdot \right), Y\left( t\right) \equiv W\left( t\right) \)...
Yes
Theorem 5.2. Under cither (H1) or (H2), if Problem (SL) is finite, then it admits an optimal control.
Proof. First suppose (H1) holds. Let \( \left( {{x}_{j}\left( \cdot \right) ,{u}_{j}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be a minimizing sequence. By (5.10), we have\n\n(5.11)\n\n\[ \text{ 及 }\begin{aligned} \int \left( {{u}_{j}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \rightarrow & \overline{\min }{\int }_{0}^{T}{\left| {u}_{j}\left(...
Yes
Corollary 6.2. Let \( \underline{U \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^{k}} \) be compact and suppose that (6.5) holds with M closed. Then Problem (DT) admits an optimal control.
Proof. Using the same argument as in the proof of Theorem 5.1, one can show that Problem (DT) with \( U \) replaced by \( \overline{\mathrm{{co}}}U \) admits a time optimal control, say, \( \widehat{u}\left( \cdot \right) \in \widehat{\mathcal{V}}\lbrack 0,\infty ) \equiv \{ u : \lbrack 0,\infty ) \rightarrow \overline...
Yes
Theorem 6.3. (Lyapunov’s theorem) Suppose \( f \in {L}^{1}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) . Then the set\n\n\[ \mathcal{R} \triangleq \left\{ {{\int }_{S}f\left( t\right) {dt} \mid S \in \mathcal{B}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack }\right\} \]\n\nis convex, where \( \mathcal{B}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack ...
We refer the reader to Hermes-LaSalle [1] for proofs of Proposition 6.1 and Theorem 6.3 (see Diestel-Uhl [1] for a more detailed discussion related to Theorem 6.3).
No
Consider the following one-dimensional control system:\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dx}\left( t\right) = u\left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) \\ x\left( 0\right) = 0 \end{array}\right. \]\n\nThe control set \( U \) is \( \{ - 1,1\} \) . Thus, we have a linear controlled system with a nonconvex control set (which is,...
The essence behind the above example is the nonconvexity of the range of vector measures defined through the Itô integral. Let us make this more precise. Let\n\n\[ {SN}\left( t\right) \times 2 = 1\left( t\right) \times B, B \in {Ft} \]\n\n(6.10)\n\n\[ \mathcal{S}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \triangleq \left\{ {S \s...
Yes
Theorem 6.5. Suppose \( f \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) such that\n\n(6.12)\n\n\[ E{\int }_{0}^{T}{\left| f\left( t\right) \right| }^{2}{dt} > 0 \]\n\nThen there exist \( {S}_{1},{S}_{2} \in \mathcal{S}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \) with\n\n(6.13)\n\n\[ \underbrace{\left| {S}_{i...
Proof. For any \( \varepsilon > 0 \), define\n\n(6.15)\n\n\[ {S}^{\varepsilon } = \{ \left( {t,\omega }\right) \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \mid \left| {f\left( {t,\omega }\right) }\right| \geq \varepsilon \} \in \mathcal{S}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack .\n\]\nLet\n\n(6.16)\n\n\[ {h}^{\varepsilon }\left( t\r...
Yes
Proposition 6.6. Suppose in (5.7)-(5.8) that\n\n(6.20)\n\n\[ \nB = {CD} \n\]\n\nand \( U = \left\{ {{u}_{0},{u}_{1}}\right\} \) with\n\n(6.21)\n\n\[ \nD\left( {{u}_{1} - {u}_{0}}\right) \neq 0 \n\]\n\nThen, for any \( {x}_{0} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) and \( T > 0,\overline{{\mathcal{R}}_{S}\left( T\right) } \) is noncon...
Proof. Without loss of generality, we may assume \( U = \{ 0,\bar{u}\} \) with \( D\bar{u} \neq 0 \) and \( {x}_{0} = 0 \) . Let \( \Phi \left( \cdot \right) \) be an \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n \times n} \) -valued process satisfying\n\n(6.22)\n\n\[ \n\left\{ \begin{array}{l} {d\Phi }\left( t\right) = {A\Phi }\left( t\right) {...
Yes
Theorem 6.7. Let\n\n(6.26)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {\mathcal{R}}_{1} = \left\{ {{\int }_{0}^{T}h\left( s\right) {ds} \mid h\left( \cdot \right) \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;\mathbb{R}}\right) }\right\} , \\ {\mathcal{R}}_{2} = \left\{ {{\int }_{0}^{T}f\left( s\right) {dW}\left( s\right) \mid f\left( \cd...
Proof. First of all, it is clear that\n\n(6.28)\n\n\[ {\overline{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} \subseteq {L}_{{\mathcal{F}}_{T}}^{2}\left( {\Omega ;\mathbb{R}}\right) ,{\overline{\mathcal{R}}}_{2} + \mathbb{R} \subseteq {L}_{{\mathcal{F}}_{T}}^{2}\left( {\Omega ;\mathbb{R}}\right) \]\n\nThus, we need only to prove the other direct...
Yes
Corollary 6.8. Let a control system be given by (5.7) with \( A, C \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n \times n} \) and \( B, D \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n \times k} \). Let \[ \text{(5.7)}\left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dx}\left( t\right) = \left\lbrack {{Ax}\left( t\right) + {Bu}\left( t\right) }\right\rbrack {dt} + \left\lbrack {{Cx}\left( t\rig...
Proof. Suppose (6.38) holds. Then we can find some \( \eta \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n},\left| \eta \right| = 1 \) , such that \[ {\eta }^{\top }D = 0 \] Multiplying the integral version of (5.7) by \( {\eta }^{\top } \), we obtain \[ {\eta }^{\top }x\left( T\right) = {\eta }^{\top }{x}_{0} + {\int }_{0}^{T}{\eta }^{\top }\lef...
Yes
Consider the controlled system\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dx}\left( t\right) = u\left( t\right) {dt} + \beta \left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) ,\;x\left( 0\right) = 0 \\ {dy}\left( t\right) = {2\beta }\left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) ,\;y\left( 0\right) = 0 \end{array}\right. \]\n\nwhere \( \beta \left( \cdot...
We now show that this (very simple) optimal control problem does not admit an optimal control. In fact,\n\n\[ J\left( {u\left( \cdot \right) }\right) = E{\left| {\int }_{0}^{T}u\left( s\right) ds - {\int }_{0}^{T}\beta \left( s\right) dW\left( s\right) \right| }^{2}. \]\n\nBy (6.27), \( {L}_{{\mathcal{F}}_{T}}^{2}\left...
Yes
Theorem 2.1. (Deterministic Maximum Principle) Let (D1)-(D3) hold. Let \( \left( {\bar{x}\left( \cdot \right) ,\bar{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be an optimal pair of Problem (D). Then there exists a \( p\left( \cdot \right) : \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) satisfying the followi...
\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \dot{p}\left( t\right) = - {b}_{x}{\left( t,\bar{x}\left( t\right) ,\bar{u}\left( t\right) \right) }^{\top }p\left( t\right) + {f}_{x}\left( {t,\bar{x}\left( t\right) ,\bar{u}\left( t\right) }\right) ,\;\text{ a.e. }t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack , \\ p\left( T\right) = - {h}_{x}\lef...
Yes
Lemma 2.2. Let (D1)-(D3) hold. Let \( {x}^{\varepsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \equiv x\left( {\cdot ;{u}^{\varepsilon }\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be the solution to (2.1) under the control \( {u}^{\varepsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \), and let \( {y}^{\varepsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \) be the solution of the foll...
Proof. Let \( {\xi }^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) \triangleq {x}^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) - \bar{x}\left( t\right) \) . Then, by (2.3), we have\n\n(2.15)\n\n\[ \left| {{\xi }^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) }\right| \leq {\int }_{0}^{t}L\left| {{\xi }^{\varepsilon }\left( s\right) }\right| {ds} + {K\varepsilon },\;...
Yes
Lemma 2.3. Let \( G \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) be a region and \( \varphi : G \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) be a locally Lipschitz continuous function. For any \( x \in G \), define\n\n\[ \partial \varphi \left( x\right) \triangleq \left\{ {\xi \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\mid \langle \xi, y\rangle \leq \underset{t \downarrow 0...
Proof. (i) By assumption, for the given \( x \in G \) and a small \( \delta > 0 \) with \( {B}_{\delta }\left( x\right) \triangleq \left\{ {z \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \mid \left| {z - x}\right| \leq \delta }\right\} \subseteq G \), there exists a constant \( L > 0 \) such that\n\n\[ \left| {\varphi \left( z\right) - \varph...
Yes
Lemma 2.4. Let \( \varphi \) be a convex or concave function on \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \times U \) with \( U \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^{k} \) being a convex body. Assume that \( \varphi \left( {x, u}\right) \) is differentiable in \( x \) and \( {\varphi }_{x}\left( {x, u}\right) \) is continuous in \( \left( {x, u}\right) \...
Proof. First we assume that \( \varphi \) is convex. For any \( \xi \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) and \( u \in {\mathbb{R}}^{k} \) , we choose a sequence \( \left\{ \left( {{x}_{i},{h}_{i}}\right) \right\} \subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \times \mathbb{R} \) in the following way:\n\n\[ \left( {{x}_{i},{u}^{ * }}\right) \in {\math...
Yes
Consider the following control system \( \left( {n = m = 1}\right) \) :\n\n(3.11)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dx}\left( t\right) = u\left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) ,\;t \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack , \\ x\left( 0\right) = 0, \end{array}\right. \]\n\nwith the control domain being \( U = \left\lbrack {-1,1...
Substituting \( x\left( t\right) = {\int }_{0}^{t}u\left( s\right) {dW}\left( s\right) \) into the cost functional, we obtain via a simple calculation\n\n(3.13)\n\n\[ J = E{\int }_{0}^{1}\left( {\frac{3}{2} - t}\right) u{\left( t\right) }^{2}{dt} \]\n\nHence, the optimal control is \( \bar{u}\left( t\right) \equiv 0 \)...
Yes
Theorem 3.2. (Stochastic Maximum Principle) Let (S0)-(S3) hold. Let \( \left( {\bar{x}\left( \cdot \right) ,\bar{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be an optimal pair of Problem (S). Then there are pairs of processes\n\n(3.17)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \left( {p\left( \cdot \right), q\left( \cdot \right) }\right) ...
The inequality (3.19) is called the variational inequality, and (3.20) is called the maximum condition. Note that the third term on the left-hand side of (3.19) reflects the risk adjustment, which must be present when \( \sigma \) depends on \( u \) .
Yes
Consider the following control system \( \left( {n = m = 1}\right) \) :\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dx}\left( t\right) = u\left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) ,\;t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack , \\ x\left( 0\right) = 0, \end{array}\right. \] \n\nwith the control domain being \( U = \{ 0,1\} \) and the cost f...
Then the optimal pair is clearly given by \( \left( {\bar{x}\left( t\right) ,\bar{u}\left( t\right) }\right) \equiv \left( {0,0}\right) \) . Now let us try to make a perturbation similar to what we have done for the deterministic case. Let \( {E}_{\varepsilon } = \left\lbrack {s, s + \varepsilon }\right\rbrack \subsete...
Yes
Lemma 4.2. Let \( Y\left( t\right) \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) be the solution of the following:\n\n(4.6)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dY}\left( t\right) = \{ A\left( t\right) Y\left( t\right) + \alpha \left( t\right) \} {dt} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{m}\left\{ {{B}^{j}...
Proof. For notational simplicity, we prove only the case \( m = 1 \) (i.e., the Brownian motion \( W\left( t\right) \) is one-dimensional), leaving the case \( m > 1 \) to the interested reader. Thus, the index \( j \) in \( {B}^{j}\left( \cdot \right) \) and \( {\beta }^{j}\left( \cdot \right) \) will be dropped. We f...
No
Theorem 4.4. Let (S1)-(S3) hold. Then, for any \( k \geq 1 \) ,\n\n(4.26)\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack }}E{\left| {x}^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) - \bar{x}\left( t\right) \right| }^{2k} = O\left( {\varepsilon }^{k}\right) \]
Proof. For simplicity of presentation, we carry out the proof only for the case \( n = m = 1 \) (thus, the indices \( i \) and \( j \) will be omitted below).\n\n1. Proof of (4.26) and (4.27).\n\nLet \( {\xi }^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) \triangleq {x}^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) - \bar{x}\left( t\right) \) . Then ...
No
Lemma 4.5. Let (S0)-(S3) hold. Let \( {y}^{\varepsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \) and \( {z}^{\varepsilon }\left( \cdot \right) \) be the solutions of (4.23) and (4.24), respectively. Let \( \left( {p\left( \cdot \right), q\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be the adapted solution of (3.8). Then\n\n\[ E\left\langle {p\left...
The proof follows immediately from Itô's formula, and we leave it to the reader (see also Chapter 1, Corollary 5.6).
No
Lemma 4.6. Let \( Y\left( \cdot \right), P\left( \cdot \right) \in {L}_{\mathcal{F}}^{2}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times n}}\right) \) satisfy the following:\n\n(4.62)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dY}\left( t\right) = \Phi \left( t\right) {dt} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{m}{\Psi }_{j}\left( t\right) d{W}^{...
(4.63)\n\n\[ = E{\int }_{0}^{T}\left\{ {\operatorname{tr}\left\lbrack {\Theta \left( t\right) Y\left( t\right) + P\left( t\right) \Phi \left( t\right) + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{m}{Q}_{j}\left( t\right) {\Psi }_{j}\left( t\right) }\right\rbrack }\right\} {dt}. \]
Yes
Lemma 5.1. Let (S0)-(S4) hold. Let \( \left( {\bar{x}\left( \cdot \right) ,\bar{u}\left( \cdot \right), p\left( \cdot \right), q\left( \cdot \right), P\left( \cdot \right), Q\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be a given admissible 6-tuple and let \( \mathcal{H} \) be the corresponding \( \mathcal{H} \) -function. Then fo...
Proof. Fix a \( t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \) and \( \omega \in \Omega \) . Define\n\n\[ \n\left\{ \begin{array}{l} H\left( u\right) \triangleq H\left( {t,\bar{x}\left( t\right), u, p\left( t\right), q\left( t\right) }\right) , \\ \mathcal{H}\left( u\right) \triangleq \mathcal{H}\left( {t,\bar{x}\left( t\ri...
Yes
Consider the following control system \( \left( {n = m = 1}\right) \) :\n\n(5.8)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dx}\left( t\right) = u\left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) ,\;t \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack , \\ x\left( 0\right) = 0, \end{array}\right. \]\n\nwith the control domain being \( U = \left\lbrack {0,1}\...
Suppose \( \left( {\overline{x}\left( \cdot \right) ,\overline{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) is an optimal pair (which we are going to identify). Then the corresponding adjoint equations are\n\n(5.10)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {dp}\left( t\right) = q\left( t\right) {dW}\left( t\right) ,\;t \in \left\lbrack {0...
Yes
Theorem 6.1. Let (S0)-(S3) and (S5) hold. Let \( \left( {\bar{x}\left( \cdot \right) ,\bar{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) be an optimal pair of Problem (SC). Then there exist a \( \left( {{\psi }^{0},\psi }\right) \in {\mathbb{R}}^{1 + \ell } \) satisfying\n\n(6.5)\n\n\[ \n{\psi }^{0} \geq 0,\;{\left| {\psi }^{0}\r...
and adapted solutions\n\n\[ \n\left\{ \begin{array}{l} \left( {p\left( \cdot \right), q\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \in {L}^{2}\left( {0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \times {\left\lbrack {L}^{2}\left( 0, T;{\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \right\rbrack }^{m}, \\ \left( {P\left( \cdot \right), Q\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \in ...
Yes
Corollary 6.3. Let the assumptions of Lemma 6.2 hold. Let \( \rho > 0 \) and \( {v}_{0} \in V \) be such that\n\n(6.26)\n\n\[ F\left( {v}_{0}\right) \leq \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{v \in V}}F\left( v\right) + \rho \]\n\nThen there exists a \( {v}_{\rho } \in V \) such that\n\n(6.27)\n\n\[ F\left( {v}_{\rho }\right) \leq F...
Proof. We take \( \lambda = \sqrt{\rho } \) . By Lemma 6.2, there exists a \( {v}_{\rho } \in V \) such that (noting (6.26))\n\n(6.29)\n\n\[ F\left( {v}_{\rho }\right) + \sqrt{\rho }d\left( {{v}_{\rho },{v}_{0}}\right) \leq F\left( {v}_{0}\right) \leq \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{v \in V}}F\left( v\right) + \rho \leq F\left...
Yes
Lemma 6.4. Let \( \bar{d} \) be defined by the following:\n\n(6.31)\n\n\[ \bar{d}\left( {u\left( \cdot \right) ,\widehat{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \triangleq \left| {\{ \left( {t,\omega }\right) \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times \Omega \mid u\left( {t,\omega }\right) \neq \widehat{u}\left( {t,\omega }\r...
Proof. Let \( \left\{ {{u}_{n}\left( \cdot \right) }\right\} \) be a Cauchy sequence in \( \mathcal{U}\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \) under the metric \( \bar{d} \), i.e.,\n\n(6.32)\n\n\[ \bar{d}\left( {{u}_{n}\left( \cdot \right) ,{u}_{m}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \rightarrow 0,\;n, m \rightarrow \infty . \]\n\...
Yes
Theorem 2.1. Let \( \left( {D1}\right) \) and \( {\left( D2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. Then for any \( \left( {s, y}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \), (2.7) \[ V\left( {s, y}\right) = \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{u\left( \cdot \right) \in \mathcal{V}\left\lbrack {s, T}\right\rbrack }}\left\{ {{\int }_{s}...
Proof. Let us denote the right-hand side of (2.7) by \( \bar{V}\left( {s, y}\right) \). By (2.6), we have \[ V\left( {s, y}\right) \leq J\left( {s, y;u\left( \cdot \right) }\right) = {\int }_{s}^{\widehat{s}}f\left( {t, x\left( t\right), u\left( t\right) }\right) {dt} + J\left( {\widehat{s}, x\left( \widehat{s}\right) ...
Yes
Proposition 2.2. Let \( \left( {D1}\right) \) and \( {\left( D2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. Suppose \( V \in {C}^{1}\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) . Then \( V \) is a solution to the following terminal value problem of a first-order partial differential equation:\n\n(2.14)\n...
Proof. Fix a \( u \in U \) . Let \( x\left( \cdot \right) \) be the state trajectory corresponding to the control \( u\left( t\right) \equiv u \) . By (2.7) with \( \widehat{s} \downarrow s \) ,\n\n\[ 0 \geq - \frac{V\left( {\widehat{s}, x\left( \widehat{s}\right) }\right) - V\left( {s, y}\right) }{\widehat{s} - s} - \...
Yes
Lemma 2.7. Let \( v \in C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) and \( \left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) be given. Then\n\n(i) \( \left( {q, p}\right) \in {D}_{t, x}^{1, + }v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \) if and only if there exists a f...
Proof. We prove (ii). The proof of (i) is similar. Suppose \( \left( {q, p}\right) \in \) \( {D}_{t+, x}^{1, + }v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \) . Let\n\n\[ \Phi \left( {t, x}\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \frac{\left( {v\left( {t, x}\right) - v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) - q\left( {t - {t}_{0}}\right) -\lan...
Yes
Theorem 2.9. A function \( v \in C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) is a viscosity solution of (2.14) if and only if \( v\left( {T, x}\right) = h\left( x\right) \) for all \( x \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \), and for all \( \left( {t, x}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n...
Proof. Suppose \( v \) is a viscosity solution of (2.14). Then, for any \( \left( {q, p}\right) \in \) \( {D}_{t, x}^{1, + }v\left( {t, x}\right) \), by Lemma 2.7 we can find a \( \varphi \in {C}^{1}\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) such that \( v - \varphi \) attains a strict ...
Yes
Theorem 2.10. Let \( \left( {D1}\right) \) and \( {\left( D2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. Then the value function \( V \in \) \( C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) is the only function that satisfies the following: For all \( \left( {t, x}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathb...
Proof. For any \( \left( {q, p}\right) \in {D}_{t +, x}^{1, \pm }V\left( {t, x}\right) \), take the function \( \varphi \) as specified by Lemma 2.7-(ii) or Lemma 2.8-(ii) (with \( v \) replaced by \( V \) ). Then we can use exactly the same argument as in Step 2 of the proof of Theorem 2.5 (note that only the right li...
Yes
Proposition 3.1. Let \( {\left( S1\right) }^{\prime } - {\left( S2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. Then the value function \( V\left( {s, y}\right) \) satisfies the following:\n\n(3.9)\n\n\[ \left| {V\left( {s, y}\right) }\right| \leq K\left( {1 + \left| y\right| }\right) ,\;\forall \left( {s, y}\right) \in \left\lbrack {0...
Proof. Let \( \left( {s, y}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) be fixed. For any \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},\mathbf{P}, W\left( \cdot \right), u\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \in \) \( {\mathcal{U}}^{w}\left\lbrack {s, T}\right\rbrack \), by Theorem 6.16 of Chapter 1, we have\n\n(3.11)\n\n\[ E\matho...
Yes
Lemma 3.2. Let \( \left( {s, y}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) and \( \left( {\Omega ,\mathcal{F},\mathbf{P}, W\left( \cdot \right), u\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \in {\mathcal{U}}^{w}\left\lbrack {s, T}\right\rbrack \) . Then, for any \( \widehat{s} \in \lbrack s, T) \) and \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\wid...
Proof. Since \( u\left( \cdot \right) \) is \( {\left\{ {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{s}\right\} }_{t \geq s} \) -adapted with \( {\mathcal{F}}_{t}^{s} = \sigma \{ W\left( r\right) : s \leq r \leq t\} \) , by Theorem 2.10 in Chapter 1 there is a function \( \psi \in {\mathcal{A}}_{T}^{m}\left( U\right) \) such that \[ u\left( {t,...
Yes
Theorem 3.4. Let \( {\left( S1\right) }^{\prime } - {\left( S2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. If \( \left( {\bar{x}\left( \cdot \right) ,\bar{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \) is optimal for Problem \( \left( {S}_{sy}\right) \), then\n\n\[ V\left( {t,\bar{x}\left( t\right) }\right) = E\left\{ {{\int }_{t}^{T}f\left( {r,\...
Proof. By the same argument as that in the proof of Theorem 3.3, we have\n\n\[ V\left( {s, y}\right) = J\left( {s, y;\bar{u}\left( \cdot \right) }\right) \]\n\n\[ = E\left\{ {{\int }_{s}^{t}f\left( {r,\bar{x}\left( r\right) ,\bar{u}\left( r\right) }\right) {dr}}\right. \]\n\n\[ \left. {+E\left\lbrack {{\int }_{t}^{T}f\...
Yes
Corollary 4.2. Let \( {\left( S1\right) }^{\prime } - {\left( S2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. Then there exists a constant \( K > 0 \) such that\n\n\[ \left| {{V}^{\varepsilon }\left( {s, y}\right) - V\left( {s, y}\right) }\right| \leq K\sqrt{\varepsilon },\;\forall \left( {s, y}\right) \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbr...
Proof. In the present case, (4.4) can be improved to\n\n\[ E\left\lbrack {\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{s \leq t \leq T}}{\left| {x}^{\varepsilon }\left( t\right) - x\left( t\right) \right| }^{2}}\right\rbrack \leq {K\varepsilon } \]\n\nand (4.7) is replaced by\n\n\[ \left| {{J}^{\varepsilon }\left( {s, y;u\left( \cdot \righ...
Yes
A function \( \varphi : {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is semiconcave if and only if for some constant \( K \geq 0 \), \[ {\lambda \varphi }\left( x\right) + \left( {1 - \lambda }\right) \varphi \left( y\right) - \varphi \left( {{\lambda x} + \left( {1 - \lambda }\right) y}\right) \] \[ \leq {K\lambda }\lef...
Proof. Note that \( \varphi \) is semiconcave in the sense of Definition 4.3 if and only if there exists a constant \( K \geq 0 \) such that for any \( \lambda \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) and \( x, y \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n}, \) \[ \varphi \left( {{\lambda x} + \left( {1 - \lambda }\right) y}\right) - K{\left| \...
Yes
Example 5.3. Let\n\n(5.14)\n\n\[ v\left( {t, x}\right) = - {t}^{ + } - {x}^{ + },\;\left( {t, x}\right) \in {\mathbb{R}}^{2}. \]
A direct computation shows that\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {D}_{t, x}^{1,2, + }v\left( {0,0}\right) = \left\lbrack {-1,0}\right\rbrack \times \{ \left\lbrack {\left( {-1,0}\right) \times \mathbb{R}}\right\rbrack \cup \left\lbrack {\{ - 1,0\} \times \lbrack 0,\infty )\rbrack \} }\right\rbrack \\ {D}_{t +, x}^{1,2, +...
Yes
Lemma 5.4. Let \( v \in C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) and \( \left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) be given. Then:\n\n(i) \( \left( {q, p, P}\right) \in {D}_{t, x}^{1,2, + }v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \) if and only if there exis...
Proof. We prove (ii). The proof of (i) is similar. Suppose \( \left( {q, p, P}\right) \in \) \( {D}_{t+, x}^{1,2, + }v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \) . Let\n\n\[ \Phi \left( {t, x}\right) = \left\{ \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{t - {t}_{0} + {\left| x - {x}_{0}\right| }^{2}}\left\lbrack {v\left( {t, x}\right) - v\left( {{...
Yes
Lemma 5.5. Let \( v \in C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) and \( \left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \in \lbrack 0, T) \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) . (i) \( \left( {q, p, P}\right) \in {D}_{t, x}^{1,2, - }v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \) if and only if there exists a function \( ...
(ii) \( \left( {q, p, P}\right) \in {D}_{t +, x}^{1,2, - }v\left( {{t}_{0},{x}_{0}}\right) \) if and only if there exists a function \( \varphi \in \) \( {C}^{1,2}\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) such that (5.31) \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \left( {\varphi \left( {{t}_{0},{x}_...
Yes
Proposition 5.6. A function \( v \in C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) is a viscosity subsolution of (3.24) if and only if \( v\left( {T, x}\right) \leq h\left( x\right) \) and\n\n(5.32)\n\n\[ \n- q + \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{u \in U}}G\left( {t, x, u, - p, - P}\right) \leq 0,\...
Proof. The result is immediate in view of Lemmas 5.4 and 5.5.
No
Corollary 5.7. Let \( {\left( S1\right) }^{\prime } - {\left( S2\right) }^{\prime } \) hold. Let \( v \in C\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack \times {\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\right) \) be a viscosity solution of (3.24). Then there exists a constant \( K > 0 \) such that\n\n(5.34)\n\n\[ \left\{ \begin{matrix} q \geq - K\l...
Proof. The result follows from Proposition 5.6 and \( {\left( \mathrm{S}1\right) }^{\prime } - {\left( \mathrm{S}2\right) }^{\prime } \) immediately.
Yes