Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (5): 1819-1836.doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60175-0

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MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REFLECTED BACKWARD STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND THE COMPARISON THEOREM

 WU Zhen, XIAO Hua   

  1. 1.School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
    2.School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai 264209, China
  • Received:2006-10-22 Revised:2008-11-29 Online:2010-09-20 Published:2010-09-20
  • Supported by:

    Wu acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation (10371067), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2007CB814904), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Z2006A01), the Doctoral Fund of Education Ministry of China, and Youth Growth Foundation of Shandong University at Weihai, P.R.China. Xiao acknowledges the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2009AQ017), and Independent Innovation Foundation of Shandong University, IIFSDU.

Abstract:

In this article, we study the multi-dimensional reflected backward stochastic differential equations. The existence and uniqueness result
of the solution for this kind of equation is proved by the fixed point argument where  every element of the solution is forced to stay above the  given stochastic process, i.e., multi-dimensional obstacle, respectively. We also give a kind of multi-dimensional comparison theorem for the reflected BSDE and then use it  as the tool to prove an existence result for the multi-dimensional reflected BSDE where the coefficient is continuous and has linear growth.

Key words: backward stochastic differential equations, comparison theorem, local time

CLC Number: 

  • 60H10
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