Numerical treatment of stochastic differential equations: Diffusion and jump-diffusion processes with applications

Abstract

In thisdissertation,wedealwiththeproblemofsimulatingstochasticdifferentialequations driven byBrownianmotionorthegeneralL´evy processes.First,weestablishthebasic theory ofstochasticcalculusandintroducetheIt ˆo-Taylorexpansionforstochasticdifferen- tial equations(SDEs).Inaddition,wepresentvariousnumericalschemesderivedfrom the It ˆo-Taylorexpansion.ThesemethodsareusedtosolvethestochasticLorenzequa- tion, thestochasticDuffingequation,andtheMertonmodelequation.Inaddition,spec- tral techniquesareadaptedforthenumericalsolutionofnonlinearstochasticdifferential equations. Further,generalizedLagrangeinterpolationfunctionsareproposedforsolving various typesofSDEs,offeringsignificantperformanceimprovements.