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Past exam of the continuous martingales and stochastic calculus course of the University of Oxford 2023 3 a ii Solution by
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Let be a continuous semimartingale, with , where is a zero-starting continuous local martingale and is a continuous finite-variation process starting at zero. For , the Itô formula isHere is the quadratic covariation; the finite-variation process parts contribute no such term. The integrals against the finite-variation processes are understood pathwise, and those against the continuous local martingales are Itô integrals after localization.
For -dimensional Brownian motion with independent standard coordinates, . In particular, if is independent of time,where is the Laplace operator. The same formulas hold up to exit from an open domain on which is smooth.
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