Unconditionally positivity-preserving explicit order-one strong approximations of financial SDEs with non-Lipschitz coefficients

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Main Authors: Wu, Xiaojuan, Liu, Ruishu, Xu, Jiahao
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author Wu, Xiaojuan
Liu, Ruishu
Xu, Jiahao
author_facet Wu, Xiaojuan
Liu, Ruishu
Xu, Jiahao
contents In this paper, we are interested in positivity-preserving approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with non-Lipschitz coefficients, arising from computational finance and possessing positive solutions. By leveraging a Lamperti transformation, we develop a novel, explicit, and unconditionally positivity-preserving numerical scheme for the considered financial SDEs. More precisely, an implicit term $c_{-1}Y_{n+1}^{-1}$ is incorporated in the scheme to guarantee unconditional positivity preservation, and a corrective operator is introduced in the remaining explicit terms to address the challenges posed by non-Lipschitz (possibly singular) coefficients of the transformed SDEs. By finding a unique positive root of a quadratic equation, the proposed scheme can be explicitly solved and is shown to be strongly convergent with order $1$, when used to numerically solve several well-known financial models such as the CIR process, the Heston-3/2 volatility model, the CEV process and the Aït-Sahalia model. Numerical experiments validate the theoretical findings.
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spellingShingle Unconditionally positivity-preserving explicit order-one strong approximations of financial SDEs with non-Lipschitz coefficients
Wu, Xiaojuan
Liu, Ruishu
Xu, Jiahao
Numerical Analysis
In this paper, we are interested in positivity-preserving approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with non-Lipschitz coefficients, arising from computational finance and possessing positive solutions. By leveraging a Lamperti transformation, we develop a novel, explicit, and unconditionally positivity-preserving numerical scheme for the considered financial SDEs. More precisely, an implicit term $c_{-1}Y_{n+1}^{-1}$ is incorporated in the scheme to guarantee unconditional positivity preservation, and a corrective operator is introduced in the remaining explicit terms to address the challenges posed by non-Lipschitz (possibly singular) coefficients of the transformed SDEs. By finding a unique positive root of a quadratic equation, the proposed scheme can be explicitly solved and is shown to be strongly convergent with order $1$, when used to numerically solve several well-known financial models such as the CIR process, the Heston-3/2 volatility model, the CEV process and the Aït-Sahalia model. Numerical experiments validate the theoretical findings.
title Unconditionally positivity-preserving explicit order-one strong approximations of financial SDEs with non-Lipschitz coefficients
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02703