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4 DerivationofBlack Scholes Equationmmmm

let thestockprice processbegeon BM dS µSdtt6SdWsolution SCH Soela Elt 16Wh

let cls.tl be theprice of anoption

Ito's comma gives dC f t µStI 6 sYdtt osdW

recall Ito dt fdttgdwthendfk.tk 9ItffItIg'fIE dt

f gdwMerton's trick consider thenightportfolio toeliminate risk

value ofportfolio D Ct S rfCtffDM dct ds rMdt suchthat A noert

Tsuchaportfoliogrows

ft't Mst's is dt ssdw

with risklessrater µSdt ffoSdWdeterministic.lk

foc z0oI.EsYdts

1625 o trs rc Black Scholes Equation

Notesindependent of µ optionpriceonly dependsonvolatility

secondorder PDE

by achange ofvariables this eq can be transformedinto a heatequation

cOo z or c Su forhigherdin

backward drift diffusionequation specify SF solve for us 01Europeancalls strikeprice

Wespecify C Sit payoff I maxlo S K

4.2DiscreteFiniteDifferences

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boundary conditionsIt

t Clt 01 0

to T CH Sua Sway Ke r t

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call CCtj sit C

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centralized derivative zcfsi OCST bettererror

secondderivative 111 1121

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0z i 2 C

t O Sse 1alsoSiemerIs 2

4 3 Stability of Time stepping Methodsmmmm

E If _Xy solution yltl yoe.tt

consider Xc 0 say also 1 1 71

Explicit Euler methodY jt Xy nhs evaluatedat j

3 yitl lyist yi ll lt.tl yjyJ It Stliyo

here if yj sfiyyoett.IOO then scheme is stable

we need 11 711 1 1

It Xftcl and 1 HtcX co Stc condition on smallnessof Sf

for scheme tobestable

ImplicitEulermethod Y t Xy r.h.sevahatedatj.it

I Xstlyitkyi 3 yit

µ yJ

yi Fist

now stabilitycondition is I I c l i this alwaysholdshere since toounconditionallystable

4 4 Application to HeatEquation

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0fj

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1 2

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denote VK.at ViiVii Vii

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1 2

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g zc 1 for stability

visit Vii Viii 2Vii ViiiimplicitIt 1 2

vis vii tat visit z ViiiWa

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0harmmatrix A vector v

WiVector V

need to solve tidiagonal systemof equationstoget T fromVT

whathappens at theboundary

Vo andVu are givenby fixed bonday conditions

wehave V a V H2 a V aVo

Vai aVII't lH2a V aUnit

so withboudayconditions the tridiagonalsystem is

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