Wishart Processes

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2012-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3256v1

Mathematics

Probability

58 pages

Scientific paper

Based on a student research project this article gives a short review on Wishart processes. A Wishart procces is a matrix valued continuous time stochastic process with a marginal Wishart distribution. The Wishart distribution is a matrix variate generalization of the chi-squared distribution. Since Wishart processes are defined as a solution to a stochastic differential equation, the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions will be discussed comprehensively. It is also shown that some solutions of the stochastic differential equation can be expressed as squares of matrix variate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. Wishart processes have the property of being symmetric positive definite and are therefore heavily used for modeling interest rates or the covariance matrix in stochastic volatility models.

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