Simulation of Conditioned Semimartingales on Riemannian Manifolds

We present a scheme for simulating conditioned semimartingales taking values in Riemannian manifolds. Extending the guided bridge proposal approach used for simulating Euclidean bridges, the scheme replaces the drift of the conditioned process with an approximation in terms of a scaled radial vector...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-02
Main Authors: Jensen, Mathias Højgaard, Sommer, Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Approximation
Density
Euclidean geometry
Fields (mathematics)
Importance sampling
Manifolds (mathematics)
Riemann manifold
Simulation
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Summary:We present a scheme for simulating conditioned semimartingales taking values in Riemannian manifolds. Extending the guided bridge proposal approach used for simulating Euclidean bridges, the scheme replaces the drift of the conditioned process with an approximation in terms of a scaled radial vector field. This handles the fact that transition densities are generally intractable on geometric spaces. We prove the validity of the scheme by a change of measure argument, and we show how the resulting guided processes can be used in importance sampling and for approximating the density of the unconditioned process. The scheme is used for numerically simulating bridges on two- and three-dimensional manifolds, for approximating otherwise intractable transition densities, and for estimating the diffusion mean of sampled geometric data.
ISSN:2331-8422