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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 202 2 iv Solution by
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On the right-hand side, means that the reference Brownian motion starts at ; on the left it means the stochastic differential equation starts at . Since is smooth and compactly supported, is bounded and globally Lipschitz continuous. Define the stochastic exponentialThe Novikov condition holds on every finite horizon , because . Thus is a true martingale. Under , the Girsanov theorem makes a standard Brownian motion for . Consequently under solves the prescribed stochastic differential equation; the existence and pathwise uniqueness theorem for a stochastic differential equation identifies its law with that of .
The Itô formula gives . Hence, for any bounded measurable ,The finite-horizon argument applies separately to every .
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