A third-order weak approximation of multidimensional Itô stochastic differential equations

This paper proposes a new third-order discretization algorithm for multidimensional Itô stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions. The scheme is constructed by the Euler-Maruyama scheme with a stochastic weight given by polynomials of Brownian motions, which is simply implemented by a Monte Carlo method. The method of Watanabe distributions on Wiener space is effectively applied in the computation of the polynomial weight of Brownian motions. Numerical examples are shown to confirm the accuracy of the scheme.