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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2011 B 6 d Solution by
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The diffusion associated with the displayed pricing equation is . For , Itô's formula givesThe drift vanishes by the PDE. Under the usual integrability conditions for the payoff and solution, localization and conditional expectation make a true martingale; for polynomial-growth data the lognormal moment bounds provide the needed integrability. Applying the terminal condition yields the Feynman-Kac formulaThe printed diffusion contains an additional undefined factor multiplying . If literally retained, its second-order generator coefficient would be , so the requested representation would correspond to that different PDE unless . The formula above uses the volatility specified by the stock model and by part (c).
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