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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 40 4 c Solution by
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This part's conditional-expectation representation is its own hypothesis; it does not need the incorrect unrestricted claim in part (b). Fix , and writeThe assumed representation makes a martingale. The stochastic Fubini theorem givesApply the Itô formula to and use the equation for from part (a), including the cross-variation. The result isUniqueness of the continuous semimartingale decomposition makes the drift vanish. Initially this is a statement; the assumed continuity in time and maturity extends it to the continuous versions simultaneously. Let to obtainSubstitute back and differentiate the maturity integrals using their continuous integrands:This is the forward drift restriction for square-root stock claims. The term comes from the product cross-variation and must be retained. For the uninformative zero-stock case, the representation does not identify ; as usual a positive initial stock price is understood.
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