Strong Convergence of Euler-Type Methods for Nonlinear Stochastic Differential Equations

Traditional finite-time convergence theory for numerical methods applied to stochastic differential equations (SDEs) requires a global Lipschitz assumption on the drift and diffusion coefficients. In practice, many important SDE models satisfy only a local Lipschitz property and, since Brownian paths can make arbitrarily large excursions, the global Lipschitz-based theory is not directly relevant. In this work we prove strong convergence results under less restrictive conditions. First, we give a convergence result for Euler--Maruyama requiring only that the SDE is locally Lipschitz and that the pth moments of the exact and numerical solution are bounded for some p >2. As an application of this general theory…