With the pioneering work of [Pardoux and Peng, Syst. Contr. Lett. 14 (1990) 55-61; Pardoux and Peng, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 176 (1992) 200-217]. We have at our disposal stochastic processes which solve the so-called backward stochastic differential equations. These processes provide us with a Feynman-Kac representation for the solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) which appear in many applications in the field of Mathematical Finance. Therefore there is a great interest among both practitioners and theoreticians to develop reliable numerical methods for their numerical resolution. In this survey, we present a number of probabilistic methods for approximating solutions of semilinear PDEs all based on the corresponding Feynman-Kac representation. We also include a general introduction to backward stochastic differential equations and their connection with PDEs and provide a generic framework that accommodates existing probabilistic algorithms and facilitates the construction of new ones.
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Crisan, Dan; Manolarakis, Konstantinos. Probabilistic methods for semilinear partial differential equations. Applications to finance. ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Tome 44 (2010) pp. 1107-1133. doi : 10.1051/m2an/2010054. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/M2AN_2010__44_5_1107_0/
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