Product Formula of Multiple Integrals of Levy Process
Nishant Agrawal, Yaozhong Hu, Neha Sharma

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This paper derives a product formula for multiple stochastic integrals with respect to Levy processes, utilizing exponential vectors and polarization to simplify the derivation.
Contribution
It introduces a new product formula for multiple integrals of Levy processes using exponential vectors and polarization techniques.
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Simplifies the derivation of product formulas for Levy process integrals
Provides a new mathematical tool for stochastic analysis of Levy processes
Enhances understanding of the structure of multiple integrals in Levy processes
Abstract
We derive a product formula for the multiple stochastic integrals with respect to Levy process. The idea is to use exponential vectors and the polarization technique which greatly simplify the argument.
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11footnotetext: Supported by the grant NSERC RGPIN-2018-05687.
Nonlinear Young integrals and differential systems
in Hölder media
Nishant Agrawal
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta at Edmonton
Edmonton, Canada, T6G 2G1
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
,
Yaozhong Hu
and
Neha Sharma
(Date: November 6, 2019)
General Product formula of multiple
integrals of Lévy process
Nishant Agrawal
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta at Edmonton
Edmonton, Canada, T6G 2G1
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
,
Yaozhong Hu
and
Neha Sharma
(Date: November 6, 2019)
Abstract.
We derive a product formula for finite many multiple stochastic integrals of Lévy process, expressed in terms of the associated Poisson random measure. The formula is compact. The proof is short and uses the exponential vectors and polarization technique.
Key words and phrases:
Lévy process, nonlinear functional of Lévy process, multiple integrals, chaos expansion, product formula, exponential vector, polarization technique
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary: 60H05. Secondary: 60G51, 60H30
1. Introduction
Stochastic analysis of nonlinear functionals of Lévy processes (including Brownian motion and Poisson process) have been studied extensively and found many applications. There have been already many standard books on this topic [1, 7, 8]. In the analysis of Brownian nonlinear functional the Wiener-Itô chaos expansion to expand a nonlinear functional of Brownian motion into the sum of multiple Wiener-Itô integrals is a fundamental contribution to the field. The product formula to express the product of two (or more) multiple integrals as linear combinations of some other multiple integrals is one of the important tools ([9]). It plays an important role in stochastic analysis, e.g. Malliavin calculus ([2, 6]).
The product formula for two multiple integrals of Brownian motion is known since the work of [9, Section 4] and the general product formula can be found for instance in [2, chapter 5]. In this paper we give a general formula for the product of multiple integrals of the Poisson random measure associated with (purely jump) Lévy process. The formula is in a compact form and it reduced to the Shigekawa’s formula when and the Lévy process is reduced to Brownian motion.
When a similar formula was obtained in [3], where the multiple integrals is with respect to the Lévy process itself (ours is with respect to the associated Poisson random measure which has a better properties). To obtain their formula in [3] Lee and Shih use white noise analysis framework. In this work, we only use the classical framework in hope that this work is accessible to a different spectrum of readers.
The product formula for multiple Wiener-Itô formula of Brownian motion plays an important role in many aplications such as U-statistics [4]. We hope similar things may happen. But we are not pursuing this goal in the current paper. Our formula is for purely jump Lévy process. It can be combined with the classical formulas [2, 4, 6, 9] to general case.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give some preliminaries on Lévy process, the associated Poisson random measure, multiple integrals. We also state our main result in this section. In Section 3, we give the proof of the formula.
2. Preliminary and main results
Let be a positive number and let be a Lévy process on some probability space with filtration satisfying the usual condition. This means that has independent and stationary increment and the sample path is right continuous with left limit. Without loss of generality, we assume . If the process has all moments for any time index , then presumably, one can use the polynomials of the process to approximate any nonlinear functional of the process . However, it is more convenient to use the associated Poisson random measure to carry out the stochastic analysis of these nonlinear functionals.
The jump of the process at time is defined by
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Denote and let be the Borel -algebra generated by the family of all Borel subsets , such that . If with and , we then define the Poisson random measure, , associated with by
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where is the indicator function of . The associated Lévy measure of is defined by
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and compensated jump measure is defined by
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The stochastic integral is well-defined for a predictable process such that , where and throughout this paper we use to represent the domain to simplify notation.
Let
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be the space of symmetric, deterministic real functions such that
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where is the Lebesgue measure. In the above the symmetry means that
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for all . For any the multiple Wiener-Itô integral
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is well-defined. The importance of the introduction of the associated Poisson measure and the multiple Wiener-Itô integrals are in the following theorem which means any nonlinear functional of the Lévy process can be expanded as multiple Wiener-Itô integrals.
Theorem 2.1** (Wiener-Itô chaos expansion for Lévy process).**
Let be -algebra generated the Lévy process . Let be an measurable square integrable random variable. Then F admits the following chaos expansion:
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where and where we denote . Moreover, we have
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This chaos expansion theorem is one of the fundamental result in stochastic analysis of Lévy processes. It has been widely studied in particular when is the Brownian motion (Wiener process). We refer to [2], [6], [7] and references therein for further reading.
To state our main result of this paper, we need some notation. Fix a positive integer . Denote
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where is the length of the multi-index (we shall use , to denote a natural number). It is easy to see that the cardinality of is . Denote , which is unordered list of the elements of , where . We use to denote a multi-index of length associated with , where , are nonnegative integers. can be regarded as a function from to . Denote
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Again the above mentioned refers to the indicator function. The conventional notations such as ; and so on are in use. Notice that we use instead of to emphasize that the corresponds to . For , and non negative integers and denote
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and
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where denotes the symmetric tensor product and means that the function is removed from the list. Let us emphasize that both and are well-defined when the lengths of and are one. However, we shall not use when and when , (namely, the identity operator). For any two elements and in , denote
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Now we can state the main result of the paper.
Theorem 2.2**.**
Let , . Then
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where we recall and .
If , then . To shorten the notations we can write , , , , , . Thus, and . Thus for the product of two multiple integrals the above theorem can be written as
Theorem 2.3**.**
Let and . Then
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where denotes the set of non negative integers and
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Remark 2.4**.**
- (1)
When is the Brownian motion, the product formula (LABEL:e.2.7) is known since [9] (see e.g. [2, Theorem 5.6] for a formula of the general form (2.12)) and is given by
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It is a “special case” of (LABEL:e.2.7) when .
3. Proof of Theorem 2.2
We shall prove the main result (Theorem 2.2) of this paper. We shall prove this by using the polarization technique (see [2, Section 5.2]). First, let us find the Wiener-Itô chaos expansion for the exponential functional (random variable) of the form
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where . An application of Itô formula (see e.g. [7]) yields
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Repeatedly using this formula, we obtain the chaos expansion of as follows.
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where the convergence is in and
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We shall first make critical application of the above expansion formula (3.17)-(3.18). For any functions (in what follows when we write we always mean and we shall omit ), we denote
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From (3.17)-(3.18), we have (consider as fixed real numbers)
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where
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It is clear that
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where , are defined by (3.21).
On the other hand, from the definition of the exponential functional (3), we have
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where and denote the above first and second exponential factors.
The first exponential factor is an exponential functional of the form (3). Thus, again by the chaos expansion formula (3.17)-(3.18), we have
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where
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By the definition of , we have
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Or
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where denotes the symmetric tensor product and denotes the symmetriization with respect to .
Define
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The cardinality of is . We shall freely use the notations introduced in Section 2. Denote also
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We have
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where is a multi-index and we used the notation ; and . Inserting the above expression into (3.24) we have
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Now we consider the second exponential factor in (3.23):
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where is defined by (2.7) (which is a subset of such that ). Thus,
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where is a multi-index. Combining (LABEL:e.3.11)-(3.27), we have
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To get an expression for we use the notations (2.9)-(2.10) and (2.11). Then
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To compare the coefficients of , we need to express the right hand side of (3.28) as a power series of . For denote
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Combining (3.23), (3.28) and (3.30), we have
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Comparing the coefficient of , we have
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Notice that when , namely, , then . We can separate these terms from the remaining ones, which will satisfy . Thus, the remaining multi-indices ’s consists of the set . We can write a multi-index as , where . We also observe . After replacing by , (3.33) gives (2.12). This proves Theorem 2.2 for , . By polarization technique (see e.g. [2, Section 5.2]), we also know the identity (2.12) holds true for , , . Because both sides of (2.12) are multi-linear with respect to , we know (2.12) holds true for
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where are constants, , and . Finally, the identity (2.12) is proved by a routine limiting argument.
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