Solution

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For a continuous vector semimartingale and , the Itô formula is
The Itô product rule, or stochastic integration by parts, is
The additional second-order term is the quadratic covariation.
For general semimartingales with càdlàg paths, use left limits in the integrands. The Itô formula for semimartingales with jumps, for time-independent , is
Here denotes the continuous local martingale part; the continuous bracket is that of these parts. For time-dependent add and insert in the other evaluations of . The integration by parts formula becomes
For continuous paths the jump sum vanishes, recovering the first two formulas.

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