Abstract: Suppose that a real valued process X is given as a solution to a stochastic
differential equation. Then, for any twice continuously differentiable function
f, the Feynman-Kac formula gives a condition for f(t,X) to be a local
martingale.
We generalize the Feynman-Kac formula in two main ways. First, it is extended
to nondifferentiable functions. Second, the process X is not required to
satisfy an SDE. Instead, it is only required to be a quasimartingale satisfying
an integrability condition, and the martingale condition for f(t,X) is then
expressed in terms of the marginal distributions, drift measure and jumps of X.
The proof involves the stochastic calculus of Dirichlet processes and a
time-reversal argument.
These results are then applied to show that a continuous and strong Markov
martingale is uniquely determined by its marginal distributions.