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Regularity of the Optimal Stopping Problem for Jump Diffusions

Erhan Bayraktar, Hao Xing

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The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption on the singularity of the L\'{e}vy measure, this paper shows that the value function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with finite/infinite variation jumps is in $W^{2, 1}_{p, loc}$ with $p\in(1, \infty)$. As a consequence, the smooth-fit property holds.

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The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption on the singularity of the L\'{e}vy measure, this paper shows that the value function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with finite/infinite variation jumps is in $W^{2, 1}_{p, loc}$ with $p\in(1, \infty)$. As a consequence, the smooth-fit property holds.

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The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption on the singularity of the L\'{e}vy measure, this paper shows that the value function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with finite/infinite variation jumps is in $W^{2, 1}_{p, loc}$ with $p\in(1, \infty)$. As a consequence, the smooth-fit property holds.

Key concepts: Optimal stopping, Mathematics, Jump, Singularity, Variational inequality, Domain (mathematical analysis), Function (biology), Stopping time

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