A note on the asymptotic stability of the semi-discrete method for stochastic differential equations

Abstract We study the asymptotic stability of the semi-discrete (SD) numerical method for the approximation of stochastic differential equations. Recently, we examined the order of ℒ 2 {\mathcal{L}^{2}} -convergence of the truncated SD method and showed that it can be arbitrarily close to 1 2 {\frac{1}{2}} ; see [I. S. Stamatiou and N. Halidias, Convergence rates of the semi-discrete method for stochastic differential equations, Theory Stoch. Process. 24 2019, 2, 89–100]. We show that the truncated SD method is able to preserve the asymptotic stability of the underlying SDE. Motivated by a numerical example, we also propose a different SD scheme, using the Lamperti transformation to the original SDE. Numerical simulations support our theoretical findings.