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The ANOVA decomposition of a non-smooth function of infinitely many variables can have every term smooth
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by Michael Griebel, Frances Y. Kuo and Ian H. Sloan PDF
Math. Comp. 86 (2017), 1855-1876 Request permission

Abstract:

The pricing problem for a continuous path-dependent option results in a path integral which can be recast into an infinite-dimensional integration problem. We study ANOVA decomposition of a function of infinitely many variables arising from the Brownian bridge formulation of the continuous option pricing problem. We show that all resulting ANOVA terms can be smooth in this infinite-dimensional case, despite the non-smoothness of the underlying payoff function. This result may explain why quasi-Monte Carlo methods or sparse grid quadrature techniques work for such option pricing problems.
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  • Michael Griebel
  • Affiliation: Institut für Numerische Simulation, Universität Bonn, Wegelerstrasse 6, 53115, Bonn, Germany – and – Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
  • MR Author ID: 270664
  • Email: griebel@ins.uni-bonn.de
  • Frances Y. Kuo
  • Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
  • MR Author ID: 703418
  • Email: f.kuo@unsw.edu.au
  • Ian H. Sloan
  • Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
  • MR Author ID: 163675
  • ORCID: 0000-0003-3769-0538
  • Email: i.sloan@unsw.edu.au
  • Received by editor(s): May 14, 2014
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 23, 2015, and November 29, 2015
  • Published electronically: October 7, 2016
  • © Copyright 2016 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 86 (2017), 1855-1876
  • MSC (2010): Primary 41A63, 41A99; Secondary 65D30
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3171
  • MathSciNet review: 3626540