How to write a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) mathematically correct?

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Aim

I am trying to write down a system of stochastic differential equations, however, since I lack a background in mathematics I am not sure how to do this.

Let's say I have the following system of ordinary differential equations, a simple Lotka Volterra Model:

$$\left\{ \begin{array}{c} \dot x = \alpha x - \beta x y \\ \dot y = \delta x y - \gamma y \end{array} \right.$$

with initial values for x = 10 and y = 10.

The parameter values for alpha, beta, delta and gamma are 1.1, 0.4, 0.1 and 0.4 respectively (mimicking this example).

In order to rewrite it to a system of stochastic differential equations, I rewrote the ODE system like this:

$$ \left\{ \begin{array}{c} \frac{d x}{d t}=\alpha x -\beta xy \\ \frac{d y}{d t}=\delta xy - \gamma y \\ \frac{d \alpha }{d t}= 0 \\ \end{array} \right. $$

In this way, I am able to let parameter $\alpha$ follow a random walk with $\mu = 0$ and $\sigma = 0.01$ (normal distribution).

Attempt

I thought a system of SDEs has the following format:

$$ \left\{ \begin{array}{c} \ dX(t) = b(X(t))dt + B(X(t))dW(t) \\ \ X(0) = x_0 \end{array} \right. $$

However, I am not sure how to write down this ODE model as an SDE model with random walk.

Question

How do I write down this system of stochastic differential equations mathematically correct?