Weak rough kernel comparison via PPDEs for integrated Volterra processes

Abstract

Motivated by applications in physics (e.g., turbulence intermittency) and financial mathematics (e.g., rough volatility), this paper examines a family of integrated stochastic Volterra processes characterized by a small Hurst parameter $H<\frac{1}{2}$. We investigate the impact of kernel approximation on the integrated process by examining the resulting weak error. Our findings quantify this error in terms of the $L^1$ norm of the difference between the two kernels, as well as the $L^1$ norm of the difference of the squares of these kernels. Our analysis is based on a path-dependent Feynman-Kac formula and the associated partial differential equation (PPDE), providing a robust and extendible framework for our analysis.