Omid Farkhonderooz - Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
Davood Ahmadian - Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

In this paper, we are interested in the construction of an explicit third-order stochastic Runge–Kutta (SRK۳) schemes for the weak approximation of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with the general diffusion coefficient b(t, x). To this aim, we use the Itˆo-Taylor method and compare them with the stochastic expansion of the approximation. In this way, the authors encountered a large number of equations and could find to derive four families for SRK۳ schemes. Also, we investigate the mean-square stability (MS-stability) properties of SRK۳ schemes for a linear SDE. Finally, the proposed families are implemented on some examples to illustrate convergence results.

Stochastic differential equations, Stochastic Runge-Kutta schemes, Itˆo-Taylor expansion, Mean-square stability, Convergence