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With an emphasis on generators with quadratic growth in the control variable we consider
measure solutions of BSDE, a solution concept corresponding to the notion of risk neutral
measure in mathematical finance. In terms of measure solutions, solving a BSDE reduces
to martingale representation with respect to an underlying filtration. Measure solutions
related to measures equivalent to the historical one provide classical solutions. We derive
the existence of measure solutions in scenarios in which the generating functions are just
continuous, of at most linear growth in the control variable (corresponding to generators of
at most quadratic growth in the usual sense), and with a random bound in the time parameter
whose stochastic integral is a BMO martingale. Our main tools include a stability property
of sequences of measure solutions, for which a limiting solution is obtained by means of the
weak convergence of measures.
We consider backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) with nonlinear generators typically of quadratic growth in the control variable. A measure solution of such a BSDE will be understood as a probability measure under which the generator is seen as vanishing, so that the classical solution can be reconstructed by a combination of the operations of conditioning and using martingale representations. In case the terminal condition ist bounded and the generator fulfills the usual continuity and boundedness conditions, we show the measure solutions with equivalent measures just reinterpret classical ones. In case of terminal conditions that have only exponentially bounded moments, we discuss a series of examples which show that in cas of non-uniqueness classical solutions that fail to be measure solutions can coexists with different measure solution.
We deal with backward stochastic differential equations with time delayed generators. In this new type of equations, a generator at time t can depend on the values of a solution in the past, weighted with a time delay function for instance of the moving average type. We prove existence and uniqueness of a solution for a sufficiently small time horizon or for a sufficiently small Lipschitz constant of a generator. We give examples of BSDE with time delayed generators that have multiple solutions or that have no solutions. We show for some special class of generators that existence and uniqueness may still hold for an arbitrary time horizon and for arbitrary Lipschitz constant. This class includes linear time delayed generators, which we study in more detail. We are concerned with different properties of a solution of a BSDE with time delayed generator, including the inheritance of boundedness from the terminal condition, the comparison principle, the existence of a measure solution and the BMO martingale property. We give examples in which they may fail.
We investigate solutions of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) with time delayed generators driven by Brownian motions and Poisson random measures that constitute the two components of a Lévy process. In this new type of equations, the generator can depend on the past values of a solution, by feeding them back into the dynamics with a time lag. For such time delayed BSDE, we prove existence and uniqueness of solutions provided we restrict on a sufficiently small time horizon or the generator possesses a sufficiently small Lipschitz constant. We study differentiability in the variational or Malliavin sense and derive equations that are satisfied by the Malliavin gradient processes. On the chosen stochastic basis this addresses smoothness both with respect to the continuous part of our Lévy process in terms of the classical Malliavin derivative for Hilbert space valued random variables, as well as with respect to the pure jump component for which it takes the form of an increment quotient operator related to the Picard difference operator.