Document ESAIM: P&S, February 2007, Vol. 11, pp. 3-22
DOI: 10.1051/ps:2007002
Reflected backward stochastic differential equations with two RCLL barriers
Jean-Pierre Lepeltier and Mingyu XuDépartement de Mathématiques, Université du Maine, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France; Jean-Pierre.Lepeltier@univ-lemans.fr; xvmingyu@hotmail.com
(Invited paper accepted September 2005. Published online 1 March 2007.)
Abstract
In this paper we consider BSDEs with Lipschitz
coefficient reflected on two discontinuous (RCLL) barriers. In this
case, we prove first the existence and uniqueness of the solution,
then we also prove the convergence of the solutions of the penalized
equations to the solution of the RBSDE. Since the method used in the
case of continuous barriers (see Cvitanic and Karatzas, Ann. Probab. 24 (1996) 2024-2056 and Lepeltier and San Martín, J. Appl. Probab. 41 (2004) 162-175) does not
work, we develop a new method, by considering the solutions of the
penalized equations as the solutions of special RBSDEs and using
some results of Peng and Xu in Annales of I.H.P. 41 (2005) 605-630.
Mathematics Subject Classification. 60H10, 60G40.
Key words: Reflected backward stochastic differential equation, penalization method, optimal stopping, Snell envelope, Dynkin game.
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