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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 211 3 a Solution by
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The cash-discounted stock is a positive continuous local martingale, because its dynamics contain no drift. Applying Itô formula to , the displayed partial differential equation cancels its drift exactly, leaving another local martingale. Since is bounded, is in fact a true martingale.
Thus the physical measure itself is an equivalent local martingale measure relative to cash for all three traded assets. The continuous-time fundamental theorem of asset pricing rules out arbitrage, more precisely no free lunch with vanishing risk, in the usual admissible class.
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