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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 202 6 b Solution by
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For the true martingale of part (a), and . Taking expectations gives the Feynman-Kac formula with a bounded potential:The right side is finite since its absolute value is at most . This also proves uniqueness among classical solutions bounded on every finite time slab: applying the formula to their difference with zero initial data gives zero. The positive sign of the potential in the partial differential equation explains the positive exponent; changing it to a negative exponent would solve a different equation.
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