Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/iii/paper-38/2/c/solution

Take a standard Brownian motion and define
The 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, so
They are consequently weakly orthogonal continuous martingales by solution.
Their product, for , is . The Itô formula gives
The 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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