Invariant measures and Euler-Maruyama's approximations of state-dependent regime-switching diffusions

Jinghai Shao

Published 2017-10-25Version 1

Regime-switching processes contain two components: continuous component and discrete component, which can be used to describe a continuous dynamical system in a random environment. Such processes have many different properties than general diffusion processes, and much more difficulties are needed to be overcome due to the intensive interaction between continuous and discrete component. We give conditions for the existence and uniqueness of invariant measures for state-dependent regime-switching diffusion processes by constructing a new Markov chain to control the evolution of the state-dependent switching process. We also establish the strong convergence in the $L^1$-norm of the Euler-Maruyama's approximation and estimate the order of error. A refined application of Skorokhod's representation of jumping processes plays a substantial role in this work.