On the stochastic Magnus expansion and its application to SPDEs

We derive a stochastic version of the Magnus expansion for the solution of linear systems of It\^o stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we prove existence and a representation formula for the logarithm associated to the solution of the matrix-valued SDEs. Second, we propose a new method for the numerical solution of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) based on spatial discretization and application of the stochastic Magnus expansion. A notable feature of the method is that it is fully parallelizable. We also present numerical tests in order to asses the accuracy of the numerical schemes