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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 202 6 i Solution by
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Interpret the Stratonovich integral in its standard extension to continuous semimartingale integrands:This extension is needed because is generally a semimartingale rather than a local martingale. Also the introductory prose in the PDF reverses integrand and integrator relative to its displayed definition; the displayed definition fixes the convention used here.
Apply the Itô formula to , using :The continuous finite-variation process in the second term has zero quadratic covariation with , while the quadratic covariation rule for an Itô integral givesA second application of the Itô formula, now to , therefore yieldsAll unbounded coefficients are handled by stopping on compact spatial intervals, then removing the localizing sequence.
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