Feynman-Kac formula under a finite entropy condition
Résumé
Motivated by entropic optimal transport, we investigate an extended notion of solution to the parabolic equation $( \partial_t + b\cdot \nabla + \Delta _{ a}/2+V)g=0$ with a final boundary condition. It is well-known that the viscosity solution $g$ of this PDE is represented by the Feynman-Kac formula when the drift $b$, the diffusion matrix $a$ and the scalar potential $V$ are regular enough and not growing too fast. In this article, $b $ and $V$ are not assumed to be regular and their growth is controlled by a finite entropy condition, allowing for instance $V $ to belong to some Kato class. We show that the Feynman-Kac formula represents a solution to the parabolic equation, in an extended sense. This notion of solution is trajectorial and expressed with the semimartingale extension of the Markov generator $ b\cdot \nabla + \Delta _{ a}/2$. Our probabilistic approach relies on stochastic derivatives, semimartingales, Girsanov's theorem and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation satisfied by $\log g$.
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