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Path-dependent equations and viscosity solutions in infinite dimension
Path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs) are natural objects to study when one deals with
non Markovian models. Recently, after the introduction of the so-called
pathwise (or functional or Dupire) calculus (see [15]), in the case of
finite-dimensional underlying space various papers have been devoted to
studying the well-posedness of such kind of equations, both from the point of
view of regular solutions (see e.g. [15, 9]) and viscosity solutions (see e.g.
[16]). In this paper, motivated by the study of models driven by path-dependent
stochastic PDEs, we give a first well-posedness result for viscosity solutions
of PPDEs when the underlying space is a separable Hilbert space. We also
observe that, in contrast with the finite-dimensional case, our well-posedness
result, even in the Markovian case, applies to equations which cannot be
treated, up to now, with the known theory of viscosity solutions.Comment: To appear in the Annals of Probabilit
Hybrid PDE solver for data-driven problems and modern branching
The numerical solution of large-scale PDEs, such as those occurring in
data-driven applications, unavoidably require powerful parallel computers and
tailored parallel algorithms to make the best possible use of them. In fact,
considerations about the parallelization and scalability of realistic problems
are often critical enough to warrant acknowledgement in the modelling phase.
The purpose of this paper is to spread awareness of the Probabilistic Domain
Decomposition (PDD) method, a fresh approach to the parallelization of PDEs
with excellent scalability properties. The idea exploits the stochastic
representation of the PDE and its approximation via Monte Carlo in combination
with deterministic high-performance PDE solvers. We describe the ingredients of
PDD and its applicability in the scope of data science. In particular, we
highlight recent advances in stochastic representations for nonlinear PDEs
using branching diffusions, which have significantly broadened the scope of
PDD.
We envision this work as a dictionary giving large-scale PDE practitioners
references on the very latest algorithms and techniques of a non-standard, yet
highly parallelizable, methodology at the interface of deterministic and
probabilistic numerical methods. We close this work with an invitation to the
fully nonlinear case and open research questions.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures; Final SMUR version; To appear in the European
Journal of Applied Mathematics (EJAM
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