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Publications and source records attributed to Barun Sarkar.
In this paper, we show existence and uniqueness of solutions to the viscous Burgers' equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$, when the initial condition $u_0$ is in Hermite-Sobolev space of index $p$, for suitable non-negative integers $p$. Our solutions are local in time. We also have a regularity result, viz. if $u_0$ belongs to Schwartz space, then so does the solution.
Following the foundational work of the Black--Scholes model, extensive research has been developed to price the option by addressing its underlying assumptions and associated pricing biases. This study introduces a novel framework for pricing European call options by modeling the underlying asset's return dynamics using Pearson diffusion processes, characterized by a linear drift and a quadratic squared diffusion coefficient. This class of diffusion processes offers a key advantage in its ability to capture the skewness and excess kurtosis of the return distribution, well-documented empirical features of financial returns. We also establish the validity of the risk-neutral measure by verifying the Novikov condition, thereby ensuring that the model does not admit arbitrage opportunities. Further, we study the existence of a unique strong solution of stock prices under the risk-neutral measure. We apply the proposed method to Nifty 50 index option data and conduct a comparative analysis against the classical Black--Scholes and Heston stochastic volatility models. Results indicate that our method shows superior performance compared to the other two benchmark models. These results carry practical implications for market participants, including market makers, hedge funds, and derivative traders.
The concept of scaled quadratic variation was originally introduced by E. Gladyshev in 1961 in the context of Gaussian processes, where it was defined as the limit of the covariance of the underlying Gaussian process. In this paper, we extend this notion beyond the Gaussian framework for any real-valued continuous function by formulating it in a pathwise manner along a given sequence of partitions. We demonstrate that, for classical Gaussian processes such as fractional Brownian motion, this pathwise definition coincides with the traditional one up to a constant factor. Furthermore, we establish that the scaled quadratic variation is invariant under smooth transformations and satisfies a pathwise It\^o isometry-type result, derived without relying on any expectation arguments.
In this article, we construct weak solutions for a class of Stochastic PDEs in the space of tempered distributions via Girsanov's theorem. It is to be noted that our drift and diffusion coefficients $(L,A)$ of the considered Stochastic PDE satisfy a Monotonicity type inequality, rather than Lipschitz conditions. As such, we can not follow the usual infinite dimensional analysis as described in \cite[sections 10.2 and 10.3]{MR3236753}. Instead, we exploit related SDEs to obtain our desired result, and we point out an important observation that the same Novikov condition is used in changing the Brownian motion in both the SDEs and the Stochastic PDEs.
In this article, we study the existence and uniqueness problem for linear Stochastic PDEs involving a bilaplacian operator. Our results on the existence and uniqueness are obtained through an application of a Monotonicity inequality, which we also prove here. As an application of these results, we also obtain a probabilistic representation of the solution for a linear PDE involving the bilaplacian operator.
We establish energy-balance for weak solutions of the stochastically forced incompressible Euler equations, enjoying Hölder regularity $C^α$, $α>1/3$. It is well known as the Onsager's conjecture for the deterministic incompressible Euler equations, which describes the energy conservation of weak solutions having Hölder regularity $C^α$, $α>1/3$. Additionally, we obtain energy-balance for the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler system driven by a cylindrical Wiener process.
In this article, we prove uniqueness and energy balance for isentropic Euler system driven by a cylindrical Wiener process. Pathwise uniqueness result is obtained for weak solutions having Hölder regularity $C^α,α>1/2$ in space and satisfying one-sided Lipschitz bound on velocity. We prove Onsager's conjecture for isentropic Euler system with stochastic forcing, that is, energy balance equation for solutions enjoying Hölder regularity $C^α,α>1/3$. Both the results have been obtained in a more general setting by considering regularity in Besov space.
In this article we show that a finite dimensional stochastic differential equation driven by a Lévy process can be formulated as a stochastic partial differential equation. We prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions of such stochastic PDEs. The solutions that we construct have the `translation invariance' property. The special case of this correspondence for diffusion processes was proved in [Rajeev, Translation invariant diffusion in the space of tempered distributions, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 44 (2013), no.~2, 231--258].
In this article we study the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions of a class of parameterized family of SDEs driven by Lévy noise. These SDEs occurs in connection with a class of stochastic PDEs, which take values in the space of tempered distributions $\mathcal{S}^\prime$. This correspondence for diffusion processes was proved in [Rajeev, Translation invariant diffusion in the space of tempered distributions, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 44 (2013), no.~2, 231--258].
We consider the following stochastic partial differential equation, \begin{align*} &dY_t=L^\ast Y_tdt+A^\ast Y_t\cdot dB_t\\ &Y_0=ψ, \end{align*} associated with a stochastic flow $\{X(t,x)\}$, for $t \geq 0$, $x \in \mathbb{R}^d$, as in [Rajeev \& Thangavelu, \emph{Probabilistic representations of solutions of the forward equations}, Potential Anal. \textbf{28} (2008), no.~2, 139--162]. We show that the strong solutions constructed there are `locally of compact support'. Using this notion,we define the mild solutions of the above equation and show the equivalence between strong and mild solutions in the multi Hilbertian space $\mathcal{S}^\prime$. We show uniqueness of solutions in the case when $ψ$ is smooth via the `monotonicity inequality' for $(L^\ast,A^\ast)$, which is a known criterion for uniqueness.