Some Results on Partial Differential Equations and Asian Options

We analyze partial differential equations arising in the evaluation of Asian options. The equations are strongly degenerate partial differential equations in three dimensions. We show that the solution of the no-arbitrage partial differential equation is sufficiently regular and standard numerical methods can be employed to approximate it.

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