Gatheral's Conjecture: General sufficient conditions for refutation
Elisa Alòs, Òscar Burés, Vladimir Lucic
Abstract
In this paper we give general sufficient conditions for a stochastic volatility model to be a counterexample for Gatheral's conjecture. The conditions, achieved by asymptotic properties of integrated variance derivatives and Wiener chaos expansions, show that a general class of rough volatility models are generally counterexamples to Gatheral's conjecture. For stochastic volatility models with Markovian variance, the conjecture fails under a relationship on the coefficients of the SDE defining the variance process. Particular examples are provided.
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