Stieltjes integrals of H\"older continuous functions with applications to fractional Brownian motion

We derive general sufficient conditions for the existence of Riemann-Stieltjes integrals $\int_a^b Yd X$. Our results extend the classical conditions of L.C.Young and improve some recent results that deal with integrals involving a fractional Brownian motion with the Hurst index $H>1/2$.

Stochastic integration w.r.t. fractional Brownian motion (fBm) has raised strong interest in recent years, motivated in particular by applications in finance and Internet traffic modelling. Since fBm is not a semi-martingale, stochastic integration requires specific developments. Multifractional Brownian motion (mBm) is a Gaussian process that generalizes fBm by letting the local H\"older exponent vary in time. This is useful in various areas, including financial modelling an...

We prove joint Holder continuity and an occupation-time formula for the self-intersection local time of fractional Brownian motion. Motivated by an occupation-time formula, we also introduce a new version of the derivative of self-intersection local time for fractional Brownian motion and prove Holder conditions for this process. This process is related to a different version of the derivative of self-intersection local time studied by the authors in a previous work.

In this manuscript, we establish asymptotic local exponential stability of the trivial solution of differential equations driven by H\"older--continuous paths with H\"older exponent greater than $1/2$. This applies in particular to stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter greater than $1/2$. We motivate the study of local stability by giving a particular example of a scalar equation, where global stability of the trivial solu...

In this paper, we study the existence and (H\"older) regularity of local times of stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motions. In particular, we show that in one dimension and in the rough case H<1/2, the H\"older exponent (in t) of the local time is 1-H, where H is the Hurst parameter of the driving fractional Brownian motion.

We consider equidistant approximations of stochastic integrals driven by H\"older continuous Gaussian processes of order $H>\frac12$ with discontinuous integrands involving bounded variation functions. We give exact rate of convergence in the $L^1$-distance and provide examples with different drivers. It turns out that the exact rate of convergence is proportional to $n^{1-2H}$ that is twice better compared to the best known results in the case of discontinuous integrands, an...

In this paper, we develop a Young integration theory in dimension 2 which will allow us to solve a non-linear one dimensional wave equation driven by an arbitrary signal whose rectangular increments satisfy some H\"{o}lder regularity conditions, for some H\"older exponent greater than 1/2. This result will be applied to the infinite dimensional fractional Brownian motion.

In this article, we consider the stochastic heat equation $du=(\Delta u+f(t,x))dt+ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} g^{k}(t,x) \delta \beta_t^k, t \in [0,T]$, with random coefficients $f$ and $g^k$, driven by a sequence $(\beta^k)_k$ of i.i.d. fractional Brownian motions of index $H>1/2$. Using the Malliavin calculus techniques and a $p$-th moment maximal inequality for the infinite sum of Skorohod integrals with respect to $(\beta^k)_k$, we prove that the equation has a unique solution (...

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of a class of stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motions with arbitrary Hurst parameter $H\in (0,1)$. In particular, the stochastic integrals appearing in the equations are defined in the Skorokhod sense on fractional Wiener spaces, and the coefficients are allowed to be random and even anticipating. The main technique used in this work is an adaptation of the anticipating Girsanov transformatio...

We study one-dimensional stochastic differential equations of form $dX_t = \sigma(X_t)dY_t$, where $Y$ is a suitable H\"older continuous driver such as the fractional Brownian motion $B^H$ with $H>\frac12$. The innovative aspect of the present paper lies in the assumptions on diffusion coefficients $\sigma$ for which we assume very mild conditions. In particular, we allow $\sigma$ to have discontinuities, and as such our results can be applied to study equations with disconti...