We prove a maximum principle for local solutions of quasi-linear parabolic stochastic PDEs, with non-homogeneous second order operator on a bounded domain and driven by a space–time white noise. Our method based on an approximation of the domain and the coefficients of the operator, does not...

For α∈R, let pR(t,x,x) denote the diagonal of the transition density of the α-Bessel process in (0,1], killed at 0 and reflected at 1. As a function of x, if either α≥3 or α=1, then for t>0, the diagonal is nondecreasing. This monotonicity property fails if 1≠α<3.

We study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) for time-changed Lévy noises when the time-change is independent of the Lévy process. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and we obtain an explicit formula for linear BSDEs and a comparison principle. BSDEs naturally...