Fractional Diffusion Bridges

Abstract

Consider ``stochastic differential equations" driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H (1/4 <H< 1). Their solutions are sometimes called fractional diffusion processes. The main purpose of this paper is conditioning these processes to reach a given terminal point. We call the conditioned processes fractional diffusion bridges. Our main tool for mathematically rigorous conditioning is quasi-sure analysis, which is a potential theoretic part of Malliavin calculus. We also prove a small-noise large deviation principle of Freidlin-Wentzell type for scaled fractional diffusion bridges under a mild ellipticity assumption on the coefficient vector fields.