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In this paper, we prove two main results. The first one is to give a new condition for the existence of two-parameter \(p, q\)-variation path integrals. Our condition of locally bounded \(p,q\)-variation is more natural and easy to verify than those of Young. This result can be easily generalized to multi-parameter case. The second result is to define the integral of local time \(\int_{-\infty}^\infty\int_0^t g(s,x)d_{s,x}L_s(x)\) pathwise and then give generalized It\(\hat {\rm o}\)’s formula when \(\nabla^-f(s,x)\) is only of bounded \(p,\break q\)-variation in \((s,x)\). In the case that \(g(s,x)=\nabla^-f(s,x)\) is of locally bounded variation in \((s,x)\), the integral \(\int_{-\infty}^\infty\int_0^t \nabla^-f(s,x)d_{s,x}L_s(x)\) is the Lebesgue–Stieltjes integral and was used by Elworthy, Truman and Zhao. When \(g(s,x)=\nabla^-f(s,x)\) is of only locally \(p, q\)-variation, where \(p\geq 1\), \(q\geq 1\), and \(2q+1>2pq\), the integral is a two-parameter Young integral of \(p,q\)-variation rather than a Lebesgue–Stieltjes integral. In the special case that \(f(s,x)=f(x)\) is independent of \(s\), we give a new condition for Meyer's formula and \(\int_{-\infty}^\infty L_{\kern1pt t}(x)d_x\nabla^-f(x)\) is defined pathwise as a Young integral. For this we prove the local time \(L_{\kern1pt t}(x)\) is of \(p\)-variation in \(x\) for each \(t\geq 0\), for each \(p>2\) almost surely (\(p\)-variation in the sense of Lyons and Young, i.e. \({\mathop {\sup }\limits_{E:\;{\text{a}}\;{\text{finite}}\;{\text{partition}}\;{\text{of}}\;{\left[ { - N,N} \right]}} }{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {{\left| {L_{t} {\left( {x_{i} } \right)} - L_{t} {\left( {x_{{i - 1}} } \right)}} \right|}^{p} < \infty } }\)).
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Feng, C., Zhao, H. Two-parameter p, q-variation Paths and Integrations of Local Times. Potential Anal 25, 165–204 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-006-9024-2
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