Càdlàg Solutions to Backward Stochastic Dynamics featuring Oblique Subgradients and driven by Martingale Noise

Abstract

The present study improves the qualitative analysis of backward stochastic variational dynamics on a general complete filtered probability space, considered in the spirit of Liang, Lyons and Qian (2011). Our primary objective is to overcome a substantial limitation in the study of Bensoussan, Li and Yam (2018), where the boundedness condition imposed on the multivalued subdifferential operator excludes standard obstacle-type constraints and indicator functions of convex sets. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a strong càdlàg solution under the natural assumption that the driving proper lower semicontinuous convex function is merely bounded from below by an affine/quadratic function. Furthermore, we incorporate an oblique reflection governed by a time-dependent, uniformly positive definite symmetric matrix, in the spirit of the pioneering results of Gassous, Răşcanu and Rotenstein (2012, 2015).

27 pages