Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Analysis, and Machine Learning Seminar by Roger Lee: All AMMs are CFMMs. All DeFi Markets Have Invariants. A DeFi Market is Arbitrage-Free If and Only If it Has an Increasing Invariant

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Speaker:  Roger Lee, associate professor of mathematics, University of Chicago

Title: All AMMs are CFMMs. All DeFi Markets Have Invariants. A DeFi Market is Arbitrage-Free If and Only If it Has an Increasing Invariant

Abstract: In a universal framework that expresses any market system in terms of state transition rules, we prove that every DeFi market system has an invariant function and is thus by definition a CFMM; indeed, all automated market makers (AMMs) are CFMMs.

Invariants connect directly to arbitrage and to completeness, according to two fundamental equivalences. First, a DeFi market system is, we prove, arbitrage-free if and only if it has a strictly increasing invariant, where arbitrage-free means that no state can be transformed into a dominated state by any sequence of transactions. Second, the invariant is, we prove, unique if and only if the market system is complete, meaning that it allows transitions between all pairs of states in the state space, in at least one direction.
Thus a necessary and sufficient condition for no-arbitrage (respectively, for completeness) is the existence of the increasing (respectively, the uniqueness of the) invariant, which, therefore, fulfills in nonlinear DeFi theory the foundational role parallel to the existence (respectively, uniqueness) of the pricing measure in the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing for linear markets.  Moreover, a market system is recoverable by its invariant if and only if it is complete. 

Our examples illustrate (non)existence of various specific types of arbitrage in the context of various specific types of market systems -- with or without fees, with or without liquidity operations, and with or without coordination among multiple pools -- but the fundamental theorems have full generality, applicable to any DeFi market system and to any notion of arbitrage expressible as a strict partial order.

 

Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Analysis, and Machine Learning Seminar

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