Introducing and solving generalized Black–Scholes PDEs through the use of functional calculus

Abstract

We introduce some families of generalized Black–Scholes equations which involve the Riemann–Liouville and Weyl space-fractional derivatives. We prove that these generalized Black–Scholes equations are well-posed in $$(L^1-L^\infty )$$ ( L 1 - L ∞ ) -interpolation spaces. More precisely, we show that the elliptic-type operators involved in these equations generate holomorphic semigroups. Then, we give explicit integral expressions for the associated solutions. In the way to obtain well-posedness, we prove a new connection between bisectorial-like operators and sectorial operators in an abstract setting. Such a connection extends the scaling property of sectorial operators to a wider family of both operators and the functions involved.