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Limits of random walks with distributionally robust transition probabilities

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  • Daniel Bartl
  • Stephan Eckstein
  • Michael Kupper

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We consider a nonlinear random walk which, in each time step, is free to choose its own transition probability within a neighborhood (w.r.t. Wasserstein distance) of the transition probability of a fixed L\'evy process. In analogy to the classical framework we show that, when passing from discrete to continuous time via a scaling limit, this nonlinear random walk gives rise to a nonlinear semigroup. We explicitly compute the generator of this semigroup and corresponding PDE as a perturbation of the generator of the initial L\'evy process.

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  • Daniel Bartl & Stephan Eckstein & Michael Kupper, 2020. "Limits of random walks with distributionally robust transition probabilities," Papers 2007.08815, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2021.
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