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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 27 6 a Solution by
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Define the diffusion generator . Fix a horizon and start the strong solution from the deterministic state . The Itô formula applied to the time-reversed test function givesThe drift vanishes by the Kolmogorov backward equation. This is initially a local martingale; localization on compact state/time sets justifies the stochastic integral without a global derivative bound. Since itself is bounded, this local martingale is a true martingale on . Its two endpoint expectations giveThis is the bounded backward-equation stochastic representation. Starting the strong solution at deterministic is the precise meaning of the conditional notation at . Also is bounded, even though boundedness was not separately imposed on .
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