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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 29 5 a Solution by
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Apply the Itô formula to . The time derivative contributes , and the quadratic-variation correction contributes another . ThusBoth the drift and diffusion coefficient are globally Lipschitz. The global existence theorem for stochastic differential equations with Lipschitz coefficients gives a unique strong stochastic solution for a fixed driving Brownian motion and initial value; in particular pathwise uniqueness holds. The explicit solution is strictly positive.
Write . This is a continuous local martingale withThe strong law for Brownian motion gives almost surely, so , , and . The Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem therefore supplies a Brownian motion in the inverse-clock filtration with for all . Finally , hence . Integrating the stochastic equation givesThe infinite clock lifetime verifies that this Brownian motion is defined for every nonnegative clock time without an additional extension.
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