摘要
ThevalueofaEuropeanoptionsatisfiestheBlack-Scholesequationwithappropriatelyspecifiedfinalandboundaryconditions.Wetransformtheproblemtoaninitialboundaryvalueproblemindimensionlessform.Therearetwoparametersinthecoefficientsoftheresultinglinearparabolicpartialdifferentialequation.Forarangeofvaluesoftheseparameters,thesolutionoftheproblemhasaboundaryoraninitiallayer.Theinitialfunctionhasadiscontinuityinthefirst-orderderivative,whichleadstotheappearanceofaninteriorlayer.Weconstructanalyticallytheasymptoticsolutionoftheequationinafinitedomain.Basedontheasymptoticsolutionwecandeterminethesizeoftheartificialboundarysuchthattherequiredsolutioninafinitedomaininxandatthefinaltimeisnotaffectedbytheboundary.Also,westudycomputationallythebehaviourinthemaximumnormoftheerrorsinnumericalsolutionsincasessuchthatoneoftheparametersvariesfromfinite(orprettylarge)tosmallvalues,whiletheotherparameterisfixedandtakeseitherfinite(orprettylarge)orsmallvalues.Crank-Nicolsonexplicitandimplicitschemesusingcenteredorupwindapproximationstothederivativearestudied.Wepresentnumericalcomputations,whichdetermineexperimentallytheparameter-uniformratesofconvergence.Wenotethatthisrateisratherweak,dueprobablytomixedsourcesoferrorsuchasinitialandboundarylayersandthediscontinuityinthederivativeofthesolution.
出版日期
2008年02月12日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)