Analytic solution of a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation
Abstract
We study a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation
whose nonlinearity is as a result of a feedback effect. This is an illiquid mar-
ket effect arising from transaction costs. An analytic solution to the nonlinear
Black-Scholes equation via a solitary wave solution is currently unknown. After
transforming the equation into a parabolic nonlinear porous medium equation,
we find that the assumption of a traveling wave profile to the later equation re-
duces it to ordinary differential equations. This together with the use of localiz-
ing boundary conditions facilitate a twice continuously differentiable nontrivial
analytic solution by integrating directly.
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