Uniqueness for diffusions degenerating at the boundary of a smooth bounded set

dc.creatorDeBlassie, Dante
dc.date2005-03-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:18:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:18:28Z
dc.descriptionFor continuous γ, g:[0,1]\to(0,\infty), consider the degenerate stochastic differential equation dX_t=[1-|X_t|^2]^{1/2}γ(|X_t|) dB_t-g(|X_t|)X_t dt in the closed unit ball of R^n. We introduce a new idea to show pathwise uniqueness holds when γand g are Lipschitz and \frac{g(1)}{γ^2(1)}>\sqrt2-1. When specialized to a case studied by Swart [Stochastic Process. Appl. 98 (2002) 131-149] with γ=\sqrt2 and g\equiv c, this gives an improvement of his result. Our method applies to more general contexts as well. Let D be a bounded open set with C^3 boundary and suppose h:\barD\to R Lipschitz on \barD, as well as C^2 on a neighborhood of \partial D with Lipschitz second partials there. Also assume h>0 on D, h=0 on \partial D and |\nabla h|>0 on \partial D. An example of such a function is h(x)=d(x,\partial D). We give conditions which ensure pathwise uniqueness holds for dX_t=h(X_t)^{1/2}σ(X_t) dB_t+b(X_t) dt in \barD.
dc.descriptionPublished at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000810 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503590
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503590
dc.identifierAnnals of Probability 2004, Vol. 32, No. 4, 3167-3190
dc.identifierdoi:10.1214/009117904000000810
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/74671
dc.subjectProbability
dc.subject60H10, 60J60 (Primary)
dc.titleUniqueness for diffusions degenerating at the boundary of a smooth bounded set
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