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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 25 5 e Solution by
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Fix . The given normal distribution and part (d) implyOne can deduce determinism without any moment assumption on the bracket. Put . Taking gives and , so . Therefore almost surely. Applying this at every rational time and using continuity of quadratic variation gives simultaneously for all outside a single null set.
The Lévy characterization of Brownian motion states that a continuous local martingale starting at zero with this bracket is Brownian motion in its filtration. To see the independent-increment conclusion directly, the Itô formula shows that is a martingale on any fixed bounded time interval: it is a local martingale with a deterministic bound on its modulus. ThusThe deterministic conditional characteristic function identifies an increment independent of . Together with the given path continuity and , this proves is Brownian motion.
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