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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 38 2 c Solution by
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Take a standard Brownian motion and defineThe Itô formula gives , so both are continuous martingales starting at zero. Their second moments are and , making them L2-bounded continuous martingales. At equal times, the odd moments of a centered normal random variable vanish, soThey are consequently weakly orthogonal continuous martingales by solution.
Their product, for , is . The Itô formula givesThe continuous finite-variation term is not identically zero: it has variance at every . Uniqueness of the continuous semimartingale decomposition therefore shows that is not even a local martingale. Equivalently is not zero, so the pair is not orthogonal continuous local martingales.
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