Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 216 4 b Solution 2026-09-28
For a sufficiently regular Itô diffusion with , a density is stationary if and only if it solves the stationary Fokker-Planck equationwith integrable Fokker-Planck probability current and boundary conditions that make its outward flux vanish. Here .
For the displayed parametrization, assumewhere , that is symmetric positive semidefinite, and that is antisymmetric. Substituting and the stated into the probability current cancels all terms. The remaining divergence isbecause the second derivatives are symmetric in whereas . Thus these conditions, together with the boundary and regularity assumptions, imply stationarity. More generally, the divergence equation above is the exact necessary and sufficient condition; within this construction, and antisymmetric are the standard way to satisfy it.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 356 2 d Solution 2026-09-28
For , an Euler--Maruyama proposal isIf , kill the path. If and , an endpoint-only test can miss a crossing. Conditional on the endpoints, the local Brownian bridge crossing probability isKill the path with this probability; otherwise impose reflection at by replacing an overshoot with and set . Repeated reflection handles very rare multiple overshoots, and the approximation converges as .