{ "id": "1704.05530", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-04-15T21:51:47.000Z", "updated": "2017-04-15T21:51:47.000Z", "title": "Nonstandard Martingales, Markov Chains and the Heat Equation", "authors": [ "Tristram de Piro" ], "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We construct a nonstandard martingale from a discrete Markov chain. This is shown to be useful for solving the heat equation with a non smooth initial condition. We show that the nonstandard solution to the heat equation with a smooth initial condition specialises to the classical solution.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-04-15T21:51:47.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "heat equation", "nonstandard martingale", "smooth initial condition specialises", "non smooth initial condition", "discrete markov chain" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }