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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 21 6 a Solution by
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By the usual definition of a Lévy process, almost surely. The two martingale assumptions giveFor a continuous Lévy process, the jump measure in the Lévy–Khintchine formula is zero, and the process has the form of a Brownian Gaussian component plus a deterministic drift. Thus its characteristic function isThe first moment makes , and the second moment makes . ConsequentlyEquivalently, continuity and the martingale identity identify the quadratic variation as , so the Lévy characterization of Brownian motion gives the same conclusion. A continuous nonzero drift is excluded by the mean-zero martingale assumption.
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