Free Boundary Regularity in the Parabolic Fractional Obstacle Problem
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The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump Lévy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main result establishes that, when s > 12 , the free boundary is a C 1,α graph in x and t near any regular free boundary point (x0, t0) ∈ ∂{u > φ}. Furthermore, we also prove that solutions u are C in x and t near such points, with a precise expansion of the form u(x, t)− φ(x) = c0 ( (x− x0) · e + a(t− t0) )1+s + + o ( |x− x0| + |t− t0| ) , with c0 > 0, e ∈ Sn−1, and a > 0.
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