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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 202 2 b Solution by
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For a continuous local martingale , its stochastic exponential isThe Itô formula gives and , so is a strictly positive local martingale. The finite-horizon Girsanov theorem says: if is a true martingale on and on , then for every continuous local martingale under ,For an infinite-horizon change of measure, assume is a uniformly integrable martingale and use its terminal density . In particular, if , the process is Brownian motion under the new probability measure, by the Lévy characterization of Brownian motion.
The quadratic variation cannot change. Adding the continuous finite-variation process leaves . Also the same pathwise partition sums defining have the same limit under an absolutely continuous change of measure; convergence in probability transfers by integrability of the density. Thus the bracket of the unchanged process , now a semimartingale, is also unchanged. The local martingale property itself need not survive. This is quadratic covariation under an absolutely continuous measure change.
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