Duality and semi-group property for backward parabolic Ito equations

We study existence, uniqueness, semi-group property, and a priori estimates for solutions for backward parabolic Ito equations in domains with boundary. We study also duality between forward and backward equations. The semi-group for backward equations is established in the form of some anti-causality. The novelty is that the semi-group property involves the diffusion term that is a part of the solution

Representation of functionals of Ito processes and their first exit times

The representation theorem is obtained for functionals of non-Markov processes and their first exit times from bounded domains. These functionals are represented via solutions of backward parabolic Ito equations. As an example of applications, analogs of forward Kolmogorov equations are derived for conditional probability density functions of Ito processes being killed on the boundary. In addition, a maximum principle and a contraction property are established for SPDEs in bounded domains.Comment: 25 page

On causal extrapolation of sequences with applications to forecasting

The paper suggests a method of extrapolation of notion of one-sided semi-infinite sequences representing traces of two-sided band-limited sequences; this features ensure uniqueness of this extrapolation and possibility to use this for forecasting. This lead to a forecasting method for more general sequences without this feature based on minimization of the mean square error between the observed path and a predicable sequence. These procedure involves calculation of this predictable path; the procedure can be interpreted as causal smoothing. The corresponding smoothed sequences allow unique extrapolations to future times that can be interpreted as optimal forecasts.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1111.670