Variational analysis for the Black and Scholes equation with stochastic volatility
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Volume 36 (2002) no. 3, p. 373-395

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.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an:2002018
Classification:  91B28,  91B24,  35K65,  65M06,  65M60
Keywords: degenerate parabolic equations, european options, weighted Sobolev spaces, finite element and finite difference method
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Achdou, Yves; Tchou, Nicoletta. Variational analysis for the Black and Scholes equation with stochastic volatility. ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Volume 36 (2002) no. 3, pp. 373-395. doi : 10.1051/m2an:2002018. http://www.numdam.org/item/M2AN_2002__36_3_373_0/

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