SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.50, No.3, 1337-1357, 2012
REGULARITY OF THE OPTIMAL STOPPING PROBLEM FOR JUMP DIFFUSIONS
The value function of an optimal stopping problem for jump diffusions is known to be a generalized solution of a variational inequality. Assuming that the diffusion component of the process is nondegenerate and a mild assumption on the singularity of the Levy measure, this paper shows that the value function of this optimal stopping problem on an unbounded domain with finite/infinite variation jumps is in W-p,loc(2,1) with p is an element of (1, infinity). As a consequence, the smooth-fit property holds.
Keywords:optimal stopping;variational inequality;Levy processes;regularity of the value function;smooth-fit principle;Sobolev spaces