A unified approach to a priori estimates for supersolutions of BSDEs in general filtrations

Abstract

We provide a unified approach to a priori estimates for supersolutions of BSDEs in general filtrations, which may not be quasi left-continuous. Unlike the previous related approaches in simpler settings, our results do not only rely on a simple application of It\^o's formula and classical estimates, but use crucially appropriate generalizations of deep estimates for supermartingales obtained by Meyer. As an example of application, we prove that reflected BSDEs are well-posed in a general framework which has not been covered so far in the existing literature.