Solution

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For deterministic square-integrable volatility, apply Itô's formula to the exponential to obtain
The stochastic integral is centered Gaussian with variance .
Under the risk-neutral measure the drift is . Conditional on , put and . Then
Integrating the discounted call option against this normal distribution yields
Thus the total remaining variance replaces throughout the ordinary formula; the corresponding effective constant volatility is . If , use the limiting deterministic value .

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