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The Feynman–Kac formula named after Richard Feynman and Mark Kac, establishes a link between parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic processes. It offers a method of solving certain PDEs by simulating random paths of a stochastic process. Conversely, an important class of expectations of random processes can be computed by deterministic methods. Consider the PDE : defined for all ''x'' in R and ''t'' in (''T'' ), subject to the terminal condition : where μ, σ, ψ, ''V'', ''f'' are known functions, ''T'' is a parameter and is the unknown. Then the Feynman–Kac formula tells us that the solution can be written as a conditional expectation : under the probability measure Q such that ''X'' is an Itō process driven by the equation : with ''WQ''(''t'') is a Wiener process (also called Brownian motion) under ''Q'', and the initial condition for ''X''(''t'') is ''X''(t) = ''x''. == Proof == Let ''u''(''x'', ''t'') be the solution to above PDE. Applying Itō's lemma to the process : one gets : Since : the third term is and can be dropped. We also have that : Applying Itō's lemma once again to , it follows that : The first term contains, in parentheses, the above PDE and is therefore zero. What remains is : Integrating this equation from ''t'' to ''T'', one concludes that : Upon taking expectations, conditioned on ''Xt'' = ''x'', and observing that the right side is an Itō integral, which has expectation zero, it follows that : The desired result is obtained by observing that : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Feynman–Kac formula」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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