Fix a terminal time and a
probability space. Let be a
Brownian motion with natural filtration . A backward stochastic differential equation is an integral equation of the type
(1)
where is called the generator of the BSDE, the terminal condition is an -measurable random variable, and the solution consists of stochastic processes and which are adapted to the filtration .
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