Ito-Wentzell Formula and Dupire Stochastic PDE

Abstract

Starting from the classic result of Wentzell, we derive a conditional forward equation and an associated stochastic Dupire PDE for a local-stochastic-volatility model (LSV). As an application, we obtain a density-weighted Rao--Blackwell estimator for the leverage function in LSV. We also derive an SPDE for a rolling expiry vanilla option, in the spirit of the Musiela parametrization in interest rate modeling.