We prove the doubling property of L-caloric measure corresponding to the second order parabolic equation in the whole space and in Lipschitz domains. For parabolic equations in the divergence form, a weaker form of the doubling property follows easily from a recent result, the backward Harnack inequality, and known estimates of Green’s function. Our method works for both the divergence and nond...

A linear parabolic differential equation on a moving surface is discretized in space by evolving surface finite elements and in time by backward difference formulas (BDF). Using results from Dahlquist’s G-stability theory and Nevanlinna & Odeh’s multiplier technique together with properties of the spatial semi-discretization, stability of the full discretization is proven for the BDF methods up...

The numerical solution of several mathematical models arising in financial economics for the valuation of both European and American call options on different types of assets is considered. All the models are based on the Black-Scholes partial differential equation. In the case of European options a numerical upwind scheme for solving the boundary backward parabolic partial differential equatio...

A new Monte-Carlo method for solving linear parabolic partial differential equations is presented. Since, in this new scheme, the particles are followed backward in time, it provides great flexibility in choosing critical points in phase-space at which to concentrate the launching of particles and thereby minimizing the statistical noise of the sought solution. The trajectory of a particle, Xi(...

We formulate collocation Runge–Kutta time-stepping schemes applied to linear parabolic evolution equations as space-time Petrov–Galerkin discretizations, and investigate their a priori stability for the parabolic space-time norms, that is the continuity constant of the discrete solution mapping. We focus on collocation based on A-stable Gauss–Legendre and L-stable right-Radau nodes, addressing ...

Abstract. We derive optimal order, residual-based a posteriori error estimates for time discretizations by the two–step BDF method for linear parabolic equations. Appropriate reconstructions of the approximate solution play a key role in the analysis. To utilize the BDF method we employ one step by both the trapezoidal method or the backward Euler scheme. Our a posteriori error estimates are of...

Consider the linear parabolic partial differential equation Duξ = 0 which arises by linearizing the heat flow on the loop space of a Riemannian manifold M . The solutions are vector fields along infinite cylinders u in M . For these solutions we establish regularity and apriori estimates. We show that for nondegenerate asymptotic boundary conditions the solutions decay exponentially in L in for...