Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2013/iii/paper-25/5/b/solution

Let be the quadratic variation. We use bilinear quadratic covariation for the complex martingale: . The Itô formula gives
By the Itô product rule, the finite-variation part of is
Part (a) says the product is a martingale, so uniqueness of the continuous semimartingale decomposition makes this finite-variation part zero. For , division gives
For , and both sides are zero, so the identity holds without exception.

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