/* -*- mode: c++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* Copyright (C) 2003 Ferdinando Ametrano Copyright (C) 2006 StatPro Italia srl This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/ QuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the QuantLib license. You should have received a copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email . The license is also available online at . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details. */ /*! \file brownianbridge.hpp \brief Browian bridge */ // =========================================================================== // NOTE: The following copyright notice applies to the original code, // // Copyright (C) 2002 Peter Jäckel "Monte Carlo Methods in Finance". // All rights reserved. // // Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is freely // granted, provided that this notice is preserved. // =========================================================================== #ifndef quantlib_brownian_bridge_hpp #define quantlib_brownian_bridge_hpp #include #include #include #include namespace QuantLib { //! Builds Wiener process paths using Gaussian variates /*! This class generates normalized (i.e., unit-variance) paths as sequences of variations. In order to obtain the actual path of the underlying, the returned variations must be multiplied by the integrated variance (including time) over the corresponding time step. \ingroup mcarlo */ class BrownianBridge { public: //! unit-time path BrownianBridge(Size steps); //! generic times /*! \note the starting time of the path is assumed to be 0 and must not be included */ BrownianBridge(const std::vector