Weak solutions of Stochastic Volterra Equations in convex domains with general kernels

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Main Authors: Jaber, Eduardo Abi, Alfonsi, Aurélien, Szulda, Guillaume
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Published: 2025
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author Jaber, Eduardo Abi
Alfonsi, Aurélien
Szulda, Guillaume
author_facet Jaber, Eduardo Abi
Alfonsi, Aurélien
Szulda, Guillaume
contents We establish new weak existence results for $d$-dimensional Stochastic Volterra Equations (SVEs) with continuous coefficients and possibly singular one-dimensional non-convolution kernels. These results are obtained by introducing an approximation scheme and showing its convergence. A particular emphasis is made on the stochastic invariance of the solution in a closed convex set. To do so, we extend the notion of kernels that preserve nonnegativity introduced in \cite{Alfonsi23} to non-convolution kernels and show that, under suitable stochastic invariance property of a closed convex set by the corresponding Stochastic Differential Equation, there exists a weak solution of the SVE that stays in this convex set. We present a family of non-convolution kernels that satisfy our assumptions, including a non-convolution extension of the well-known fractional kernel. We apply our results to SVEs with square-root diffusion coefficients and non-convolution kernels, for which we prove the weak existence and uniqueness of a solution that stays within the nonnegative orthant. We derive a representation of the Laplace transform in terms of a non-convolution Riccati equation, for which we establish an existence result.
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spellingShingle Weak solutions of Stochastic Volterra Equations in convex domains with general kernels
Jaber, Eduardo Abi
Alfonsi, Aurélien
Szulda, Guillaume
Probability
We establish new weak existence results for $d$-dimensional Stochastic Volterra Equations (SVEs) with continuous coefficients and possibly singular one-dimensional non-convolution kernels. These results are obtained by introducing an approximation scheme and showing its convergence. A particular emphasis is made on the stochastic invariance of the solution in a closed convex set. To do so, we extend the notion of kernels that preserve nonnegativity introduced in \cite{Alfonsi23} to non-convolution kernels and show that, under suitable stochastic invariance property of a closed convex set by the corresponding Stochastic Differential Equation, there exists a weak solution of the SVE that stays in this convex set. We present a family of non-convolution kernels that satisfy our assumptions, including a non-convolution extension of the well-known fractional kernel. We apply our results to SVEs with square-root diffusion coefficients and non-convolution kernels, for which we prove the weak existence and uniqueness of a solution that stays within the nonnegative orthant. We derive a representation of the Laplace transform in terms of a non-convolution Riccati equation, for which we establish an existence result.
title Weak solutions of Stochastic Volterra Equations in convex domains with general kernels
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04911