Approximation of the invariant distribution for a class of ergodic SDEs with one-sided Lipschitz continuous drift coefficient using an explicit tamed Euler scheme

Abstract

We study the behavior in a large time regime of an explicit tamed Euler-Maruyama scheme applied to a class of ergodic Ito stochastic differential equations with one-sided Lipschitz continuous drift coefficient and bounded globally Lipschitz diffusion coefficient. Our first main contribution is to prove moments for the numerical scheme, which, on the one hand, are uniform with respect to the time-step size, and which, on the other hand, may not be uniform but have at most polynomial growth with respect to time. Our second main contribution is to apply this result to obtain weak error estimates to quantify the error to approximate averages with respect to the invariant distribution of the continuous-time process, as a function of the time-step size and of the time horizon. The explicit tamed Euler scheme is shown to be computationally effective for the approximation of the invariant distribution: even if the moment bounds and error estimates are not proved to be uniform with respect to time, the obtained polynomial growth results in a marginal increase in the upper bound of the computational cost. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result in the literature concerning the approximation of the invariant distribution for stochastic differential equations with non-globally Lipschitz coefficients using an explicit tamed Euler-Maruyama scheme.