Let be the ordinary Black-Scholes price of the terminal claim . Denote the new asset by . Since it is strictly increasing in , invert it as and write . Its derivative is
The replicating portfolio in the new asset and bank account therefore holds
The wealth is . The diffusion coefficient of is , agreeing with that of . Its drift together with the bank holding is
which equals the drift of by its Black-Scholes equation. This verifies self financing and terminal replication. Thus the square-payoff claim has nonzero volatility and can replace the original stock as the traded risky asset.
The stochastic differential computed above is
Thus this positive no-dividend traded claim behaves as a new geometric Brownian motion asset with
The transformed drift need not be positive, even though the three original market parameters were assumed positive. Under the risk-neutral measure it becomes , as it must for a non-dividend traded asset.
Under the risk-neutral measure, the same second-moment formula uses drift . Discounting the power option payoff therefore gives
Let and . The delta hedging portfolio holds
Its wealth is . To verify self financing, Itô's formula gives
At maturity the wealth is , completing replication.
Applying Itô's formula to gives the geometric Brownian motion
The Gaussian exponential moment then yields
This expectation is under the physical measure and therefore uses drift .
The zero means and orthogonality give the exact second moment
Thus in . Chebyshev's inequality gives the requested weak law of large numbers:
Independence is unnecessary; the stated second-moment orthogonality is sufficient.
For an explicit almost surely convergent subsequence take . For each positive integer ,
The First Borel-Cantelli lemma makes only finitely many such exceedances occur. Intersecting the resulting probability-one events over gives almost surely.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
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