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View SchemaSmoothness of martingale observables and generalized Feynman-Kac formulas
| Authors | Alex Karrila, Lauri Viitasaari |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.10539vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10539 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
We prove that, under the H\"ormander criterion on an It\^{o} process, all its martingale observables are smooth. As a consequence, we also obtain a generalized Feynman-Kac formula providing smooth solutions to certain PDE boundary-value problems, while allowing for degenerate diffusions as well as boundary stopping (under very mild boundary regularity assumptions). We also highlight an application to a question posed on Schramm-Loewner evolutions, by making certain Girsanov transform martingales accessible via It\^{o} calculus.
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