Stochastic expansions and Hopf algebras

Details Stochastic expansions and Hopf algebras Stochastic expansions and Hopf algebras

2008-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/0805.2340v2

Mathematics

Probability

23 pages, 4 figures

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We study solutions to nonlinear stochastic differential systems driven by a multi-dimensional Wiener process. A useful algorithm for strongly simulating such stochastic systems is the Castell--Gaines method, which is based on the exponential Lie series. When the diffusion vector fields commute, it has been proved that at low orders this method is more accurate in the mean-square error than corresponding stochastic Taylor methods. However it has also been shown that when the diffusion vector fields do not commute, this is not true for strong order one methods. Here we prove that when there is no drift, and the diffusion vector fields do not commute, the exponential Lie series is usurped by the sinh-log series. In other words, the mean-square error associated with a numerical method based on the sinh-log series, is always smaller than the corresponding stochastic Taylor error, in fact to all orders. Our proof utilizes the underlying Hopf algebra structure of these series, and a two-alphabet associative algebra of shuffle and concatenation operations. We illustrate the benefits of the proposed series in numerical studies.

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