Sharp estimates for the convergence of the density of the Euler scheme in small time

Emmanuel Gobet (Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann Université de Grenoble)
Céline Labart (INRIA Paris Rocquencourt)

Abstract


In this work, we approximate a diffusion process by its Euler scheme and we study the convergence of the density of the marginal laws. We improve previous estimates especially for small time.

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Pages: 352-363

Publication Date: June 24, 2008

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v13-1393

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