Convergence of the semi-implicit Euler method for neutral stochastic delay differential equations with phase semi-Markovian switching

Recently, in the numerical analysis for stochastic differential equations (SDEs), it is a new topic to study the numerical schemes of neutral stochastic functional differential equations (NSFDEs) (see Wu and Mao [1]). Especially when Markovian switchings are taken into consideration, these problems will be more complicated. Although Zhou and Wu [2] develop a numerical scheme to neutral stochastic delay differential equations with Markovian switching (short for NSDDEwMSs), their method belongs to explicit Euler–Maruyama methods which are in general much less accurate in approximation than their implicit or semi-implicit counterparts. Therefore, to propose an implicit method becomes imperative to fill the gap. In this paper we will extend Zhou and Wu [2] to the case of the semi-implicit Euler–Maruyama methods and equations with phase semi-Markovian switching rather than Markovian switching. The employment of phase semi-Markovian chains can avoid the restriction of the negative exponential distribution of the sojourn time at a state. We prove the semi-implicit Euler solution will converge to the exact solution to NSDDEwMS under local Lipschitz condition. More precise inequalities and new techniques are put forward to overcome the difficulties for the existence of the neutral part.