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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 38 4 a Solution by
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Put . Its continuous, strictly increasing paths start at zero and tend to infinity. Thus the inverse is finite and continuous, andso each is a stopping time. Set and . This is the inverse-clock construction in the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem.
To verify its martingale property, stop at times bounding its path, its bracket and time itself. The stopped and are bounded martingales. Optional sampling at and shows that the time-changed process, stopped at , is a martingale and that its square minus the stopped clock is a martingale. These clock stopping times tend to infinity because . Therefore is a continuous local martingale with and quadratic variation . The Lévy characterization of Brownian motion identifies it as a -Brownian motion.
Strict monotonicity and continuity give and , soThe inverse-clock argument proves the asserted representation; the random clock need not be independent of the Brownian motion it produces.
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