Skorokhod integral

In mathematics, the Skorokhod integral, often denoted δ, is an operator of great importance in the theory of stochastic processes. It is named after the Ukrainian mathematician Anatoliy Skorokhod. Part of its importance is that it unifies several concepts:

δ is an extension of the Itô integral to non-adapted processes;
δ is the adjoint of the Malliavin derivative, which is fundamental to the stochastic calculus of variations (Malliavin calculus);
δ is an infinite-dimensional generalization of the divergence operator from classical vector calculus.

Definition

Preliminaries: the Malliavin derivative

Consider a fixed probability space (Ω, Σ, P) and a Hilbert space H; E denotes expectation with respect to P

{\mathbf {E}}[X]:=\int _{{\Omega }}X(\omega )\,{\mathrm {d}}{\mathbf {P}}(\omega ).

Intuitively speaking, the Malliavin derivative of a random variable F in L^p(Ω) is defined by expanding it in terms of Gaussian random variables that are parametrized by the elements of H and differentiating the expansion formally; the Skorokhod integral is the adjoint operation to the Malliavin derivative.

Consider a family of R-valued random variables W(h), indexed by the elements h of the Hilbert space H. Assume further that each W(h) is a Gaussian (normal) random variable, that the map taking h to W(h) is a linear map, and that the mean and covariance structure is given by

{\mathbf {E}}[W(h)]=0,

{\mathbf {E}}[W(g)W(h)]=\langle g,h\rangle _{{H}},

for all g and h in H. It can be shown that, given H, there always exists a probability space (Ω, Σ, P) and a family of random variables with the above properties. The Malliavin derivative is essentially defined by formally setting the derivative of the random variable W(h) to be h, and then extending this definition to “smooth enough” random variables. For a random variable F of the form

F=f(W(h_{{1}}),\ldots ,W(h_{{n}})),

where f : Rⁿ → R is smooth, the Malliavin derivative is defined using the earlier “formal definition” and the chain rule:

{\mathrm {D}}F:=\sum _{{i=1}}^{{n}}{\frac {\partial f}{\partial x_{{i}}}}(W(h_{{1}}),\ldots ,W(h_{{n}}))h_{{i}}.

In other words, whereas F was a real-valued random variable, its derivative DF is an H-valued random variable, an element of the space L^p(Ω;H). Of course, this procedure only defines DF for “smooth” random variables, but an approximation procedure can be employed to define DF for F in a large subspace of L^p(Ω); the domain of D is the closure of the smooth random variables in the seminorm :

$\|F\|_{{1,p}}:={\big (}{\mathbf {E}}[|F|^{{p}}]+{\mathbf {E}}[\|{\mathrm {D}}F\|_{{H}}^{{p}}]{\big )}^{{1/p}}.$

This space is denoted by D^1,p and is called the Watanabe-Sobolev space.

The Skorokhod integral

For simplicity, consider now just the case p = 2. The Skorokhod integral δ is defined to be the L²-adjoint of the Malliavin derivative D. Just as D was not defined on the whole of L²(Ω), δ is not defined on the whole of L²(Ω; H): the domain of δ consists of those processes u in L²(Ω; H) for which there exists a constant C(u) such that, for all F in D^1,2,

{\big |}{\mathbf {E}}[\langle {\mathrm {D}}F,u\rangle _{{H}}]{\big |}\leq C(u)\|F\|_{{L^{{2}}(\Omega )}}.

The Skorokhod integral of a process u in L²(Ω; H) is a real-valued random variable δu in L²(Ω); if u lies in the domain of δ, then δu is defined by the relation that, for all F ∈ D^1,2,

{\mathbf {E}}[F\,\delta u]={\mathbf {E}}[\langle {\mathrm {D}}F,u\rangle _{{H}}].

Just as the Malliavin derivative D was first defined on simple, smooth random variables, the Skorokhod integral has a simple expression for “simple processes”: if u is given by

u=\sum _{{j=1}}^{{n}}F_{{j}}h_{{j}}

with F_j smooth and h_j in H, then

\delta u=\sum _{{j=1}}^{{n}}\left(F_{{j}}W(h_{{j}})-\langle {\mathrm {D}}F_{{j}},h_{{j}}\rangle _{{H}}\right).

Properties

The isometry property: for any process u in L²(Ω; H) that lies in the domain of δ,

\mathbf {E} {\big [}(\delta u)^{2}{\big ]}=\mathbf {E} \int |u_{t}|^{2}dt+\mathbf {E} \int D_{s}u_{t}\,D_{t}u_{s}\,ds\,dt.

If u is an adapted process, then

D_{s}u_{t}=0

for s > t, so the second term on the right-hand side vanishes. The Skorokhod and Itô integrals coincide in that case, and the above equation becomes the Itô isometry.

The derivative of a Skorokhod integral is given by the formula

{\mathrm {D}}_{{h}}(\delta u)=\langle u,h\rangle _{{H}}+\delta ({\mathrm {D}}_{{h}}u),

where D_hX stands for (DX)(h), the random variable that is the value of the process DX at “time” h in H.

The Skorokhod integral of the product of a random variable F in D^1,2 and a process u in dom(δ) is given by the formula

\delta (Fu)=F\,\delta u-\langle {\mathrm {D}}F,u\rangle _{{H}}.

References

Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Skorokhod integral", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
Ocone, Daniel L. (1988). "A guide to the stochastic calculus of variations". Stochastic analysis and related topics (Silivri, 1986). Lecture Notes in Math. 1316. Berlin: Springer. pp. 1–79. MR 953793
Sanz-Solé, Marta (2008). "Applications of Malliavin Calculus to Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (Lectures given at Imperial College London, 7–11 July 2008)" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-07-09.

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