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Kybernetika 44(5):685-704, 2008.

On Exact Null Controllability of Black - Scholes Equation

Kumarasamy Sakthivel, Krishnan Balachandran, Rangarajan Sowrirajan and Jeong-Hoon Kim


Abstract:

In this paper we discuss the exact null controllability of linear as well as nonlinear Black--Scholes equation when both the stock volatility and risk-free interest rate influence the stock price but they are not known with certainty while the control is distributed over a subdomain. The proof of the linear problem relies on a Carleman estimate and observability inequality for its own dual problem and that of the nonlinear one relies on the infinite dimensional Kakutani fixed point theorem with $L^2$ topology.


Keywords: Black--Scholes equation; volatility; controllability; observability; Carleman estimates;


AMS: 93B05; 93C20; 45K05; 93E03;


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BIB TeX

@article{kyb:2008:5:685-704,

author = {Sakthivel, Kumarasamy and Balachandran, Krishnan and Sowrirajan, Rangarajan and Kim, Jeong-Hoon },

title = {On Exact Null Controllability of Black - Scholes Equation},

journal = {Kybernetika},

volume = {44},

year = {2008},

number = {5},

pages = {685-704}

publisher = {{\'U}TIA, AV {\v C}R, Prague },

}


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