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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 30 3 b Solution by
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Define the stochastic integralIt is adapted to , starts at zero and has continuous paths. Integrals over disjoint clock intervals are centered Gaussian and independent, and an increment from to is independent of . The Itô isometry gives its varianceThese are precisely the defining properties of a -Brownian motion; in particular its future increments are independent of .
Deterministic substitution in the stochastic integral, first for step integrands and then by the Itô isometry, gives . HenceThe initial term is essential: a stochastic integral from time zero alone cannot equal , since . This is the unscaled part of the exponential Brownian time change to a stationary Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
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