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Past exam of the continuous martingales and stochastic calculus course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b iii Solution by
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Summing the exact cubic increment identity givesThe first sum tends to zero in L2 space. Indeed, odd moments of centered normal random variables vanish, a centered normal random variable of variance has sixth moment , and independence of the Brownian increments givesThe second sum converges in L2 space to by (i).
For the last sum, first note that , so is a square-integrable stochastic integrand. If and , then is independent of , with . HenceIt follows thatThe Itô isometry therefore makes converge in L2 space to , with bounded truncations supplying the initial simple predictable processes if needed. Taking limits in the cubic identity provesThe proof uses only increment algebra, moments of normal random variables and the definition of the Itô integral.
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