Large Deviations for Multi-valued Stochastic Differential Equations
Jiagang Ren, Siyan Xu, Xicheng Zhang

TL;DR
This paper establishes a large deviation principle for multivalued stochastic differential equations with monotone drifts, including reflected SDEs in convex domains, extending the theoretical understanding of their probabilistic behavior.
Contribution
It introduces a large deviation principle for a broad class of multivalued SDEs with monotone drifts, covering reflected cases in convex domains.
Findings
Proves a Freidlin-Wentzell type large deviation principle for multivalued SDEs.
Includes SDEs with reflection in convex domains as a special case.
Extends large deviation theory to more complex stochastic systems.
Abstract
We prove a large deviation principle of Freidlin-Wentzell's type for the multivalued stochastic differential equations with monotone drifts, which in particular contains a class of SDEs with reflection in a convex domain.
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TopicsStochastic processes and financial applications · Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations · Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Large Deviations for Multi-valued Stochastic Differential Equations∗
Jiagang Ren1, Siyan Xu1, Xicheng Zhang2
1 School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R.China
2Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P.R.China
Emails: J. Ren: [email protected]
S. Xu: [email protected]
X.Zhang: [email protected]
Abstract.
We prove a large deviation principle of Freidlin-Wentzell’s type for the multivalued stochastic differential equations with monotone drifts, which in particular contains a class of SDEs with reflection in a convex domain.
Key words and phrases:
Multivalued stochastic differential equation, Maximal monotone operator, Large deviation principle
*This work is supported by NSF of China (No. 10871215).
1. Introduction
Consider the following multivalued stochastic differential equation (MSDE in short):
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where is a multivalued maximal monotone operator, which will be described below, is a sequence of independent standard Brownian motions on a filtered probability space , and are two continuous functions, stands for the Hilbert space of square summable sequences of real numbers.
This type of MSDE was first studied by Cépa in [5, 6]. He proved that if and are Lipschitz continuous, then there exists a unique pair of processes such that
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where is a finite variation process (see Definition 2.3 below for more details). Recently, Zhang [14] extended Cépa’s result to the infinite dimensional case, and relaxed the Lipschitz assumption on to the monotone case. It should be noted that when is the subdifferential of the indicator function of a convex subset of , the above MSDE is the same as the usual SDE with reflecting boundary in a convex domain (cf. [1, 9]). Moreover, since the subdifferential of any lower semicontinuous convex function is a maximal monotone operator, Cépa’s result can also be used to deal with the SDE with discontinuous coefficients. It is well known that there are many literatures to investigate the SDEs with reflecting boundary since the solutions of a large class of PDEs with Neumann boundary and mixed boundary conditions can be represented by the solution of such SDEs (cf. [1]).
We now consider the following small perturbation of Eq.(3):
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The solution of this equation is denoted by . We want to establish the large deviation principle of the law of in the space , namely, the asymptotic estimates of probabilities , where .
In [1], Anderson and Orey considered the same small random perturbation for the dynamical system with reflecting boundary in smooth domain, and obtained the Freidlin-Wentzell’s large deviation estimates in . They assumed that the coefficients are bounded and Lipschitz continuous, the diffusion coefficient is non-degenerate. Using the contraction principle, Cépa [5] only considered the large deviation principle of one dimensional case based on an explicit construction of the solution (cf. [13]). Multi-dimensional case is still open. Compared with the usual SDE, i.e., , most of the difficulties come from the presence of finite variation process . One only knows that is continuous, and could not prove any further regularity such as Hölder continuity. Therefore, the classical method of time discretarized method is almost not applicable (cf. [7]).
Our method is based on recently well developed weak convergence approach due to Dupuis and Ellis [8] (see also [2, 3]). This method has been proved to be very effective for various systems (cf. [11, 15, 4, 16, 10, 12, etc.]). Since we cannot prove the following uniform estimate as in [11]: for any and ,
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one cannot obtain the tightness of the laws of in . Some technical difficulties for verifying the conditions (LD)1 and (LD)2 below need to be overcome.
In Section 2, we recall some well known facts about the MSDE and a criterion for Laplace principle. In Section 3, we present our main result and give a detailed proof. Throughout the paper, with or without indexes will denote different constants (depending on the indexes) whose values are not important.
2. Preliminaries
We first give some notions and notations about multivalued operators. Let be the set of all subsets of . A map is called a multivalued operator. Given such a multivalued operator , define:
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We recall the following definitions.
Definition 2.1**.**
(1) A multivalued operator is called monotone if
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(2) A monotone operator A is called maximal monotone if for each ,
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Examples 2.2**.**
Suppose that is a closed convex subset of , and is the indicator function of , i.e,
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The subdifferential of is given by
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where is the interior of and is the exterior normal cone at . One can check that is a multivalued maximal monotone operator in the sense of Definition 2.1.
We now give the precise definition of the solution to Eq.(3).
Definition 2.3**.**
A pair of continuous and ()-adapted processes is called a solution of Eq.(1) if
- (i)
, and for all , ; 2. (ii)
* a.s. and is of finite variation;* 3. (iii)
, ; 4. (iv)
for any continuous and ()-adapted processes with
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the measure
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We now recall an abstract criterion for Laplace principle, which is equivalent to the large deviation principle (cf. [3, 4, 15]). It is well known that there exists a Hilbert space so that is Hilbert-Schmidt with embedding operator and is a Brownian motion with values in , whose covariance operator is given by . For example, one can take as the completion of with respect to the norm generated by scalar product
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For a Polish space , we denote by the Borel -field, and by the continuous function space from to , which is endowed with the uniform distance so that is still a Polish space. Define
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with the norm
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where the dot denotes the generalized derivative. Let be the law of the Brownian motion in . Then
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forms an abstract Wiener space.
For , set
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and
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We equip with the weak convergence topology in . Then
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Let be a Polish space. A function is given.
Definition 2.4**.**
The function is called a rate function if for every , the set is compact in .
Let be a family of measurable mappings. Assume that there is a measurable map such that
- (LD)1
For any , if a family (as random variables in ) converges in distribution to , then for some subsequence , Z^{\epsilon_{k}}\Big{(}\cdot+\frac{h_{\epsilon_{k}}(\cdot)}{\sqrt{\epsilon_{k}}}\Big{)} converges in distribution to in .
- (LD)2
For any , if weakly converges to , then for some subsequence , converges to in .
For each , define
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where by convention. Then under (LD)2, is a rate function.
We recall the following result due to [3] (see also [17, Theorem 4.4]).
Theorem 2.5**.**
Under (LD)1 and (LD)2, satisfies the Laplace principle with the rate function given by (11). More precisely, for each real bounded continuous function on :
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In particular, the family of satisfies the large deviation principle in with the rate function . More precisely, let be the law of in , then for any
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where the closure and the interior are taken in , and is defined by (11).
3. Main Result and Proof
We assume that
- (H1)
is a maximal monotone operator with non-empty interior, i.e., Int; 2. (H2)
and are continuous functions and satisfy that for some and all
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where denotes the Hilbert-Schmidt space and denotes the norm in , and for some and
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It is well known that under (H1) and (H2), there exists a unique solution to Eq.(6) in the sense of Definition 2.3 (cf. [14]). Our main result is stated as follows:
Theorem 3.1**.**
Assume that (H1) and (H2) hold. Then the family of satisfies the large deviation principle in with the rate function given by
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where solves the following equation:
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Remark 3.2**.**
Let be the half plane in , i.e.,
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Let be the subdifferential of the indicator function (see Example 2.2). Consider the following small perturbation of SDEs with refection boundary studied in [1]:
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It clearly falls into our formulations and Theorem 3.1 can be applied to obtain the same result as in [1].
For proving this result, by Theorem 2.5, the main task is to verify (LD)1 and (LD)2 with
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This will be done in Lemmas 3.8 and 3.9 below.
Let converge almost surely to as random variables in , and solve the following control equation:
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which can be solved by Girsanov’s theorem, and solve the following deterministic equation:
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Let denote the total variation of on . We recall the following result due to Cépa [6] (see also [14, Propositions 3.3 and 3.4]).
Proposition 3.3**.**
Under (H1), there exist such that for any pair of with the property (iv) of Definition 2.3 and all
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Moreover, for any pairs of and with the property (iv) of Definition 2.3
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Using this property, we first prove the following uniform estimates.
Lemma 3.4**.**
For any , there exists such that for any and
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Proof.
Set
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and
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By Itô’s formula, (H2) and (18), we have for any
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Set
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By BDG’s inequality and Young’s inequality, we have for any
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Similarly, we have
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Letting in (20) and (21) and combining the above calculations, we get
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which gives the desired estimate by Gronwall’s inequality. ∎
Lemma 3.5**.**
For any and , there exists such that for any
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Proof.
First of all, as in the proof of Lemma 3.4 we may prove that
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Let be as in Proposition 3.3. By Itô’s formula, (17) and (H2), we have
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The desired estimate now follows by (23). ∎
Define
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The following lemma is easy by Ascoli-Arzela’s lemma.
Lemma 3.6**.**
* converges a.s. to zero in .*
We now prove the following key lemma.
Lemma 3.7**.**
* defined by (15) converges in probability to defined by (16) in .*
Proof.
Set . Then
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By Itô’s formula, we have
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It is clear that by (18)
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and
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By BDG’s inequality and (H2) we also have
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As estimating (21) we have
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Set
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Then we have
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which implies that
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By Gronwall’s inequality we get
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We now deal with the hard term . By Itô’s formula again, we have
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For any and , we have
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Noting that
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as above, we also have
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Similarly, we have
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Moreover, by BDG’s inequality we have
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Combining the above calculations, we get
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It is easy to see by (22) that
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Hence
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Substituting this into (25) we obtain
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Thus, we have proven that for all
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We now strengthen it by Lemma 3.4 to
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Set
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where and denotes the grid in with edge length . It is clear that there are only finite many points in . Hence
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For any , let denote the left-lower corner point in so that
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Noting that
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we have for any and some
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where the last step is due to Lemma 3.4 and Kolmogorov’s criterion. First letting be small enough, then go to zero, we then obtain
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which yields the desired result. ∎
Lemma 3.8**.**
(LD)1* holds.*
Proof.
Let be a sequence in converge to in distribution. Since is compact and the law of is tight, is tight in by the definition of tightness. Without loss of generality, we assume the law of weakly converges to . Then the law of is just . Indeed, for any bounded continuous function on , we have
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By Skorohod’s representation theorem, there are and and such that
(1) a.s. converges to ;
(2) has the same law as ;
(3) The law of is , and the law of is the same as .
Using Lemma 3.7, we get
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where is the strong solution functional(cf. [9]). From this, we derive
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Thus, (LD)1 holds. ∎
Similar to the proof of Lemma 3.7, one can easily verify that
Lemma 3.9**.**
(LD)2* holds.*
Thus, by Lemmas 3.8, 3.9 and Theorem 2.5, we have proved Theorem 3.1.
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