BSDE driven by Dirichlet process and semi-linear parabolic PDE. Application to homogenization

Abstract

Backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) also gives the weak solution of a semi-linear system of parabolic PDEs with a second-order divergence-form partial differential operator and possibly discontinuous coefficients. This is proved here by approximation. After that, a homogenization result for such a system of semi-linear PDEs is proved using the weak convergence of the solution of the corresponding BSDEs in the S-topology.