
8.2 Calculation of Mean Derivatives for a Wiener Process and for Diffusion Processes 199
where ∇ =(
∂
∂x
1
, ...,
∂
∂x
n
), ∇
2
is the Laplacian, the dot denotes the inner
product in R
n
and Y
0
(t, x) and Y
0
∗
(t, x) are as introduced in formulae (8.5)
and (8.6).
Proof. The vector field Z(t, x) can be considered as a map Z :[0,l]×R
n
→ R
n
and so one may apply formulae (8.16)and(8.17). Note that Z
(Y )=(Y ·∇)Z
for a vector Y . Formula (8.24) follows immediately from (8.16)and(8.22)
while (8.25) follows from (8.17)and(8.23).
In fact the forward mean derivative and the quadratic mean derivative
together make it possible in principle to recover a stochastic process from
its mean derivatives: the forward mean derivative gives information about
the drift while the quadratic mean derivative gives information about the
diffusion term. It turns out that such recovery is also possible for more com-
plicated relations with mean derivatives that we call equations with mean
derivatives (EMDs).
Specify a homogeneous polynomial f(x, y)oforderk of two variables,
analogous polynomials g
i
(x, y), i =1, ..., k −1oforderi and two mappings:
F : R ×R
n
× ... × R
n
→ R
n
and g : R × R
n
→ R
n
.
Definition 8.21. A k-th-order stochastic equation with mean derivatives
(EMD) is a system
f(D, D
∗
)ξ(t)=F (t, ξ(t),g
1
(D, D
∗
)ξ(t), ..., g
k−1
(D, D
∗
)ξ(t)), (8.26)
D
2
ξ(t)=g(t, ξ(t)).
The definition of a differential inclusion with mean derivatives is anal-
ogous. In Section 8.4 below we prove some existence theorems for several
types of first order equations and inclusion with mean derivatives. Various
second order equations and inclusions with mean derivatives are considered
in Chapters 14 and 15 and in Section 16.4. For the construction of their so-
lutions we need to have formulae of mean derivatives for processes from a
sufficiently broad class. The next two sections are devoted to the derivation
of such formulae.
8.2 Calculation of Mean Derivatives for a Wiener
Process and for Diffusion Processes
For a Wiener process w(t)inR
n
Dw(t)=0,t ∈ [0,l), by Lemma 8.5(i) since
w(t) is a martingale.
Lemma 8.22 For t ∈ (0,l] the equality D
∗
w(t)=
w(t)
t
holds.