Fractional Ito calculus

Abstract

We derive It\^o-type change of variable formulas for smooth functionals of irregular paths with non-zero $p-$th variation along a sequence of partitions where $p \geq 1$ is arbitrary, in terms of fractional derivative operators, extending the results of the F\"ollmer-Ito calculus to the general case of paths with 'fractional' regularity. In the case where $p$ is not an integer, we show that the change of variable formula may sometimes contain a non-zero a 'fractional' It\^o remainder term and provide a representation for this remainder term. These results are then extended to paths with non-zero $\phi-$variation and multi-dimensional paths. Finally, we derive an isometry property for the pathwise F\"ollmer integral in terms of $\phi$ variation.