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Regularity of the optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions. (English) Zbl 1255.60068

The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption on the singularity of the Lévy measure, this paper shows that the value function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with finite/infinite variation jumps is in \(W^{2,1}_{p,\mathrm{loc}}\) with \(p\in(1, \infty)\). As a consequence, the smooth-fit property holds.

MSC:

60G40 Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory
60J75 Jump processes (MSC2010)
35R35 Free boundary problems for PDEs
45K05 Integro-partial differential equations