Extension of the Kalman–Bucy Filter to Elementary Linear Systems with Fractional Brownian Noises

We investigate the optimal filtering problem in the simplest Gaussian linear system driven by fractional Brownian motions. At first we extend to this setting the Kalman–Bucy filtering equations which are well-known in the specific case of usual Brownian motions. Closed form Volterra type integral equations are derived both for the mean of the optimal filter and the variance of the filtering error. Then the asymptotic stability of the filter is analyzed. It is shown that the variance of the filtering error converges to a finite limit as the observation time tends to infinity. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.