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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 36, Number 3, May/June 2002
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| Page(s) | 373 - 395 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an:2002018 | |
| Published online | 15 August 2002 | |
Variational Analysis for the Black and Scholes Equation with Stochastic Volatility
1
UFR Mathématiques, Université Paris 7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France. Laboratoire d'Analyse Numérique, Université Paris 6.
achdou@math.jussieu.fr.
2
IRMAR, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
Received:
9
May
2001
Revised:
4
February
2002
We propose a variational analysis for a Black and Scholes equation with stochastic volatility. This equation gives the price of a European option as a function of the time, of the price of the underlying asset and of the volatility when the volatility is a function of a mean reverting Orstein-Uhlenbeck process, possibly correlated with the underlying asset. The variational analysis involves weighted Sobolev spaces. It enables to prove qualitative properties of the solution, namely a maximum principle and additional regularity properties. Finally, we make numerical simulations of the solution, by finite element and finite difference methods.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 91B28 / 91B24 / 35K65 / 65M06 / 65M60
Key words: Degenerate parabolic equations / european options / weighted Sobolev spaces / finite element and finite difference method.
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002
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