A BDG inequality for stochastic Volterra integrals

Abstract

We establish Burkholder-Davis-Gundy-type inequalities for stochastic Volterra integrals with a completely monotone convolution kernel, which may exhibit singular behaviour at the origin. When the supremum is taken over a finite interval, the upper bound depends linearly on the $L^\gamma$-norm of the kernel, for any $\gamma>2$. We demonstrate the utility of this inequality in quantifying the pathwise distance between two stochastic Volterra equations with distinct kernels, with a particular emphasis on the multifactor Markovian approximation. For kernels that decay sufficiently fast, we derive an alternative inequality valid over an infinite time interval, providing uniform-in-time bounds for mean-reverting stochastic Volterra equations. Finally, we compare our findings with existing results in the literature.