Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2006
We consider a system of fully coupled forward-backward stochasticdifferential equations. First we generalize the results ofPardoux-Tang [7] concerning the regularity of the solutions withrespect to initial conditions. Then, we prove that in some particularcases this system leads to aprobabilistic representation of solutions of a second-order PDE whosesecond order coefficients depend on the gradient of the solution. Wethen give some examples in dimension 1 and dimension 2 for which theassumptions are easy to check.