A weak trapezoidal method for a class of stochastic differential equations

Details A weak trapezoidal method for a class of stochastic differential equations A weak trapezoidal method for a class of stochastic differential equations

2009-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/0906.3475v2

Mathematics

Numerical Analysis

16 pages, 4 figures. New version with discussion of Richardson Extrapolation and enlarge appendix

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We present a numerical method for the approximation of solutions for the class of stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions which induce stochastic variation in fixed directions. This class of equations arises naturally in the study of population processes and chemical reaction kinetics. We show that the method constructs paths that are second order accurate in the weak sense. The method is simpler than many second order methods in that it neither requires the construction of iterated Ito integrals nor the evaluation of any derivatives. The method consists of two steps. In the first an explicit Euler step is used to take a fractional step. This fractional point is then combined with the initial point to obtain a higher order, trapezoidal like, approximation. The higher order of accuracy stems from the fact that both the drift and the quadratic variation of the underlying SDE are approximated to second order.

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