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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2010 F 1 b Solution by
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For fixed , the map is strictly increasing because its derivative is , and it tends to opposite infinities at the two ends of the real line. The intermediate value theorem gives exactly one root, defining .
For , never vanishes. The implicit function theorem supplies a solution locally around every . Uniqueness makes all these local functions agree on overlaps, proving . Implicit differentiation givesAt the root is zero, so .
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