The problem of finding a martingale on a manifold with a fixed random terminal value can be solved by considering BSDEs with a generator with quadratic growth. We study here a generalization of these equations and we give uniqueness and existence results in two different frameworks, using differential geometry tools. Applications to PDEs are given, including a certain class of Dirichlet problem...

The purpose of this note is to provide an existence result for the solution of fully coupled Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs) of the mean field type. These equations occur in the study of mean field games and the optimal control of dynamics of the McKean Vlasov type.

In this paper we investigate a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) whose terminal values are allowed to depend on the history of a forward diffusion. We first establish a probabilistic representation for the spatial gradient of the viscosity solution to a quasilinear parabolic PDE in the spirit of the Feynman–Kac formula, without using the derivatives of the coefficients ...

High performance robot manipulators, in terms of cycle time and accuracy, require well designed control methods, based on accurate dynamic models. Robot manipulators are traditionally described by the flexible joint model or the flexible link model. These models only consider elasticity in the rotational direction. When these models are used for control or simulation, the accuracy can be limite...

We show the well-posedness of backward stochastic differential equations containing an additional drift driven by a path of finite q-variation with q ∈ [1, 2). In contrast to previous work, we apply a direct fixpoint argument and do not rely on any type of flow decomposition. The resulting object is an effective tool to study semilinear rough partial differential equations via a Feynman–Kac typ...

In [1], we have studied a generalization of the problem of finding a martingale on a manifold whose terminal value is known. This article completes the results obtained in the first article by providing uniqueness and existence theorems in a general framework (in particular if positive curvatures are allowed), still using differential geometry tools.

In this paper we explain the notion of stochastic backward differential equations and its relationship with classical (backward) parabolic differential equations of second order. The paper contains a mixture of stochastic processes like Markov processes and martingale theory and semi-linear partial differential equations of parabolic type. Some emphasis is put on the fact that the whole theory ...

We study the asymptotic behavior of the solution of semi-linear PDEs. Neither periodicity nor ergodicity assumptions are assumed. The coefficients admit only a limit in a C̀esaro sense. In such a case, the limit coefficients may have discontinuity. We use probabilistic approach based on weak convergence techniques for the associated backward stochastic differential equation in the S-topology. We...

In this paper we study a class of backward stochastic differential equations with reflections (BSDER, for short). Three types of discretization procedures are introduced in the spirit of the so-called Bermuda Options in finance, so as to first establish a Feynman–Kac type formula for the martingale integrand of the BSDER, and then to derive the continuity of the paths of the martingale integran...