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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 39 5 b Solution by
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Set . The positive densityhas mean one, and the Girsanov theorem makes a Brownian motion under the equivalent measure . HenceThe Black-Scholes equation makes a local martingale. Bounded on the finite horizon makes it a true martingale, so its terminal condition gives the risk-neutral valuationThe geometric Brownian motion solution under isThe Brownian increment is independent of and equals in distribution, where has the standard normal distribution. ThereforeThe expectation on the right is only an integral against the standard normal law; the physical drift has disappeared.
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