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Past exam of the stochastic differential equations and Brownian motion in complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2008 A 1 c Solution by
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Lévy's characterization of Brownian motion states that a real continuous local martingale with and quadratic variation is a standard Brownian motion with respect to its filtration. Equivalently, its increments are independent of the past and have centered normal distribution with variances equal to elapsed times.
Let . The running maximum is continuous and adapted, so is bounded and progressively measurable process. It has a predictable version for integration; changing its value at the single switching time does not change its stochastic integral. Thus is a continuous local martingale starting at zero. Since ,Lévy's characterization of Brownian motion yields is standard Brownian motion. The sign depends on the entire past through the running maximum, but the unit quadratic-variation rate is exactly what the characterization needs.
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