FIZIKA A 19 (2010) 1 , 11-30

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APPLICATION OF THE FRACTIONAL PROBLEM OF THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS AND THE FRACTIONAL PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO STOCHASTIC MODELING

R. A. EL-NABULSI
Department of Nuclear and Energy Engineering, Cheju National University, Ara-dong 1, Jeju 690-756, South Korea
E-mail address: nabulsiahmadrami@yahoo.fr

Received 30 March 2009;    Revised manuscript received 27 January 2010
Accepted 3 March 2010    Online 6 April 2010

The fractional path integral approach is applied to stochastic models, in particular the financial derivatives and options pricing formulated within the framework of the fractional action-like variational approach recently introduced by the author. Many interesting features and consequences are revealed in some details.

PACS numbers: 02.50.Ey, 45.10.Hj
UDC 530.162

Keywords: fractional path integral, options pricing, financial modeling, stochastic models

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