Absolutely continuous laws of Jump-Diffusions in finite and infinite dimensions with applications to mathematical Finance

Barbara Forster, Eva Luetkebohmert, Josef Teichmann

Published 2005-09-01, updated 2008-10-01Version 3

In mathematical Finance calculating the Greeks by Malliavin weights has proved to be a numerically satisfactory procedure for finite-dimensional It\^{o}-diffusions. The existence of Malliavin weights relies on absolute continuity of laws of the projected diffusion process and a sufficiently regular density. In this article we first prove results on absolute continuity for laws of projected jump-diffusion processes in finite and infinite dimensions, and a general result on the existence of Malliavin weights in finite dimension. In both cases we assume H\"ormander conditions and hypotheses on the invertibility of the so-called linkage operators. The purpose of this article is to show that for the construction of numerical procedures for the calculation of the Greeks in fairly general jump-diffusion cases one can proceed as in a pure diffusion case. We also show how the given results apply to infinite dimensional questions in mathematical Finance. There we start from the Vasi\v{c}ek model, and add -- by pertaining no arbitrage -- a jump diffusion component. We prove that we can obtain in this case an interest rate model, where the law of any projection is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^M $.