Convergence of the Euler-Maruyama method for multidimensional SDEs with discontinuous drift and degenerate diffusion coefficient

We prove strong convergence of order $1/4-\epsilon$ for arbitrarily small $\epsilon>0$ of the Euler-Maruyama method for multidimensional stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with discontinuous drift and degenerate diffusion coefficient. The proof is based on estimating the difference between the Euler-Maruyama scheme and another numerical method, which is constructed by applying the Euler-Maruyama scheme to a transformation of the SDE we aim to solve

Convergence of the tamed-Euler-Maruyama method for SDEs with discontinuous and polynomially growing drift

Numerical methods for SDEs with irregular coefficients are intensively studied in the literature, with different types of irregularities usually being attacked separately. In this paper we combine two different types of irregularities: polynomially growing drift coefficients and discontinuous drift coefficients. For SDEs that suffer from both irregularities we prove strong convergence of order $1/2$ of the tamed-Euler-Maruyama scheme from [Hutzenthaler, M., Jentzen, A., and Kloeden, P. E., The Annals of Applied Probability, 22(4):1611-1641, 2012]

On the complexity of strong approximation of stochastic differential equations with a non-Lipschitz drift coefficient

We survey recent developments in the field of complexity of pathwise approximation in $p$-th mean of the solution of a stochastic differential equation at the final time based on finitely many evaluations of the driving Brownian motion. First, we briefly review the case of equations with globally Lipschitz continuous coefficients, for which an error rate of at least $1/2$ in terms of the number of evaluations of the driving Brownian motion is always guaranteed by using the equidistant Euler-Maruyama scheme. Then we illustrate that giving up the global Lipschitz continuity of the coefficients may lead to a non-polynomial decay of the error for the Euler-Maruyama scheme or even to an arbitrary slow decay of the smallest possible error that can be achieved on the basis of finitely many evaluations of the driving Brownian motion. Finally, we turn to recent positive results for equations with a drift coefficient that is not globally Lipschitz continuous. Here we focus on scalar equations with a Lipschitz continuous diffusion coefficient and a drift coefficient that satisfies piecewise smoothness assumptions or has fractional Sobolev regularity and we present corresponding complexity results