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Differentiating Time-Dependent Integrals with Brownian Integrators

Article Quant Q&A · Author: not_sure95

Summary

The question asks how to differentiate an integral whose upper limit and integrand both depend on time, with the integrand also depending on a stochastic process. One reply proposes applying a Leibniz-style rule: account for the changing upper limit and differentiate the integrand’s explicit time dependence inside the integral. For the displayed exponential integrand, this produces an endpoint contribution and an integral involving an additional factor of the state process.

Another reply gives a separate transformation for a Brownian integrand that is a function of Brownian motion, using an antiderivative and Itô’s formula. These are distinct techniques, and the response to the original question is only a brief formal expression. Differentiation of stochastic integrals requires care about the meaning of the derivative, regularity and integrability assumptions, and whether the endpoint term is written as a differential or a time derivative. The discussion supplies no assumptions or proof to establish a general rule.

Key ideas

  • When an integral depends on time through both its upper limit and its integrand, both sources of variation must be considered.
  • Differentiating the displayed integrand with respect to time introduces another factor of the state variable.
  • An antiderivative followed by Itô’s formula can rewrite certain Brownian integrals when the integrand has a suitable form.
  • The proposed expressions require assumptions and careful interpretation before they can be used as general stochastic differentiation rules.

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# Partial derivative of Ito integral without product rule


# Partial derivative of Ito integral without product rule












I'm thinking about the problem of deriving the stochastic differential of an integral with both time and state part of the integrand but not in a way that you can easily factor it out - for example I want to derive the partial derivative with respect to $t$ of

$\int_0^t e^{tX_s}X_s dB_s$

or similar. In the case the integrand $f(t, X_t)$ can be represented as a product of state and time terms I can use integration by parts sometimes but is there a general way to work with these types of problems?

Edit: Before the suggestion comes, I also want to close out the case where I could substitute into a function which I could then tackle wit the product rule of differentiation.

## Answer by Valometrics.com (score 1)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/51034

There is a simple way to transform $dB_t$ to $dt$ in the case your $X_t$ is function of the brownian motion. let's compute for example: $$\int^T_0e^{tBt}dB_t$$ Here is my way to do it:

- You replace Bt by x in the function inside the integral, so the function becomes: $e^{tx}$.

- You compute the primitive of the function with respect to x: $\int e^{tx}dx=\frac{e^{tx}}{t}$.

- You replace $x$ by $B_t$ in the primitive then you use ito lamma and its done: $$d\frac{e^{tB_t}}{t}=\frac{B_te^{tB_t}-e^{tB_t}}{t^2}dt+e^{tB_t}dB_t+\frac{1}{2}te^{tB_t}dt$$ $$e^{tB_t}dB_t=d\frac{e^{tB_t}}{t}-(\frac{B_te^{tB_t}-e^{tB_t}}{t^2}+\frac{1}{2}te^{tB_t})dt$$

## Answer by q.t.f. (score 0)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/51044

I think here you can just differentiate. The variable $t$ appears twice in the expression: as the limit of integration and inside the integrand. You get one term in the partial derivative from each of these occurances. That is, $$ \frac{d}{dt} \int_0^t e^{t X_s} X_s dB_s = e^{t X_t} X_t dB_t + \int_0^t e^{t X_s} X_s^2 dB_s . $$

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