Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications

The paper deals with a stochastic heat equation driven by an additive fractional Brownian space-only noise. We prove that a solution to this equation is a stationary and ergodic Gaussian process. These results enable us to construct a strongly consistent estimator of the diffusion parameter.

We investigate the fractional Vasicek model described by the stochastic differential equation $d{X_{t}}=(\alpha -\beta {X_{t}})\hspace{0.1667em}dt+\gamma \hspace{0.1667em}d{B_{t}^{H}}$, ${X_{0}}={x_{0}}$, driven by the fractional Brownian motion ${B^{H}}$ with the known Hurst parameter $H\in (1/2,1)$. We study the maximum likelihood estimators for unknown parameters α and β in the non-ergodic case (when $\beta <0$) for arbitrary ${x_{0}}\in \mathbb{R}$, generalizing the result of Tanaka, Xiao and Yu (2019) for particular ${x_{0}}=\alpha /\beta $, derive their asymptotic distributions and prove their asymptotic independence.

For a class of non-autonomous parabolic stochastic partial differential equations defined on a bounded open subset $D\subset {\mathbb{R}^{d}}$ and driven by an ${L^{2}}(D)$-valued fractional Brownian motion with the Hurst index $H>1/2$, a new result on existence and uniqueness of a mild solution is established. Compared to the existing results, the uniqueness in a fully nonlinear case is shown, not assuming the coefficient in front of the noise to be affine. Additionally, the existence of moments for the solution is established.

We consider a stochastic differential equation of the form with multiplicative stochastic volatility, where Y is some adapted stochastic process. We prove existence–uniqueness results for weak and strong solutions of this equation under various conditions on the process Y and the coefficients a, $\sigma _{1}$, and $\sigma _{2}$. Also, we study the strong consistency of the maximum likelihood estimator for the unknown parameter θ. We suppose that Y is in turn a solution of some diffusion SDE. Several examples of the main equation and of the process Y are provided supplying the strong consistency.

We prove the asymptotic normality of the discretized maximum likelihood estimator for the drift parameter in the homogeneous ergodic diffusion model.