Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2024/iii/paper-202/4/d/solution

As printed, the requested conclusion is false for . On an interval on which stays positive, the time change of a continuous process satisfies . The time-changed martingale term has quadratic variation , so the Lévy characterization of Brownian motion identifies it with a standard Brownian motion . Dividing the drift in part (a) by the derivative of the clock gives
Consequently the construction actually satisfies
which is the Bessel process equation of dimension . It equals the paper's claimed drift only when . The mismatch between the specified power, clock, and conclusion is therefore a typographical error in the question.

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