Evolution equations for Markov processes: Application to the white-noise theory of filtering

Applied Mathematics & Optimization - Tập 31 - Trang 327-348 - 1995
A. G. Bhatt1, R. L. Karandikar1
1Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India

Tóm tắt

LetX be a Markov process taking values in a complete, separable metric spaceE and characterized via a martingale problem for an operatorA. We develop a criterion for invariant measures when rangeA is a subset of continuous functions onE. Using this, uniqueness in the class of all positive finite measures of solutions to a (perturbed) measure-valued evolution equation is proved when the test functions are taken from the domain ofA. As a consequence, it is shown that in the characterization of the optimal filter (in the white-noise theory of filtering) as the unique solution to an analogue of Zakai (as well as Fujisaki-Kallianpur-Kunita) equation, it suffices to take domainA as the class of test functions where the signal process is the solution to the martingale problem forA.

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