Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 211 5 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Assume the usual positive initial stock price and strike, so the logarithm is defined, and interpret as a classical solution of the displayed partial differential equation. For a fixed complex , put , defining . The Itô formula for the two Brownian motions with correlation coefficient givesThe partial differential equation cancels the entire drift. By the permission to treat the resulting local martingales as true martingales, and the terminal condition, .
The bounded spot volatility ensures : the Itô formula for a real power and localization bound its moment by . Rewrite the proposed integrand asNow , an integrable bound independent of . Conditional Fubini's theorem and part (b) therefore implyThis route justifies the contour exchange without assuming bounds on uniform in all complex . Cash is constant, is a true martingale under the stated allowance, and the displayed is a true martingale. The original measure is thus an equivalent martingale measure for all three assets. The fundamental theorem of asset pricing gives the market has no arbitrage under the usual admissible trading convention.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 109 4 Solution 2026-10-03
A multiset of subsets of is a uniform cover of multiplicity when each coordinate occurs in exactly members. The uniform covers theorem states that every Euclidean body satisfieswhere is the coordinate projection of a Euclidean body onto the coordinates in .
We prove it by induction on . Split the cover into , whose members omit , and , whose members contain . Exactly members lie in . For a last-coordinate value , let be the corresponding slice. Removing from the members of and retaining the members of gives a -uniform cover of . The inductive hypothesis and Fubini's theorem giveApply Hölder's inequality to the factors in the integral. Sincewe obtain , which is the result after taking the th power. The one-dimensional base case is immediate.
The Bollobas--Thomason box theorem states that for every body there is an axis-parallel box such thatAn irreducible uniform cover cannot be decomposed into two smaller uniform covers. There are only finitely many such covers of : encode a cover by its multiplicity vector in and apply the Dickson lemma.
Choose a componentwise minimal positive array satisfyingfor every irreducible -uniform cover , together withThe actual projection volumes are feasible by the uniform covers theorem, and finiteness gives a minimal array. Every uniform cover is a disjoint union of irreducible ones, so its cover inequality also holds for this array.
Minimality implies that, for each coordinate , some tight uniform-cover inequality can be chosen whose cover contains the singleton . Indeed, either such an inequality already blocks decreasing , or a tight product inequality does; in the latter case take a tight cover containing and replace that occurrence of by its singleton coordinates. Let these tight covers be , of multiplicities , and let . Their multiset union is a -uniform cover. Removing one copy of every singleton leaves a -uniform cover, so comparison of its cover inequality with the product of all the tight equalities yieldsThe singleton cover gives the reverse inequality, henceFor any , the one-uniform cover consisting of and the singletons for now gives . The defining product inequality gives the reverse bound. Thus all these quantities are equal. Taking the side lengths of to be proves the theorem.
Finally suppose that the proper body satisfiesThis is equality in the three-dimensional Loomis--Whitney inequality. In its proof, equality must hold in both applications of Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Their equality conditions force the three projection indicators to factor through one-dimensional measurable sets , and forceup to a set of Lebesgue measure zero; this is Equality in the three-dimensional Loomis--Whitney inequality.
Because is connected, each one-coordinate projection is connected and hence is an interval. Because is a finite union of positive-volume axis-parallel boxes, a proper difference between and the product of those three intervals would contain a positive-volume rectangular cell in a common finite subdivision. That would contradict equality up to measure zero. Consequently the equality is exact and
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 211 2 c Solution 2026-10-03
Condition on and use the characteristic function of a standard normal distribution:The integrand has modulus one, so Fubini's theorem is immediate. Taking expectation over yields
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 211 2 c Solution 2026-10-03
By the bound in part (a), Fubini's theorem applies. Conditional on ,where the Characteristic function of the Cauchy distribution was used. Since ,The formula expresses a European call option value through complex moments of . In an affine stochastic-volatility model such as the Heston model, those moments are available from an explicit transform, so call prices reduce to a one-dimensional Fourier expectation or integral.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 350 3 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The notation denotes generalized Gaussian white noise over , not a Gaussian measure supported on : the identity is not a trace-class operator there. For example, realize the observation on a suitable space of tempered distributions. Its Cameron-Martin space of a Gaussian measure is . For deterministic , the stochastic pairing has normal distribution under and is the isonormal Gaussian process indexed by .
Interpret the stated maps between Sobolev spaces as bounded linear operators, as usual. In particular is bounded, so its adjoint operator is bounded on . Hence maps into , which is the property needed here. The stronger smoothing follows by Sobolev duality: boundedness of gives , and therefore . As , the shift belongs to the noise Cameron-Martin space of a Gaussian measure for -almost every .
The white-noise likelihood for a square-integrable shift, obtained from the Cameron-Martin theorem for a Gaussian measure in its white-noise form, isHere is the law of . In an orthonormal basis of , with white-noise coordinates , the pairing under isFor fixed this has mean-square convergence and converges almost surely, since . The stipulated joint measurability allows the likelihood to be used under . One must not replace this expression by a finite , because white noise is not -valued. On the unbounded domain , membership of white noise in a global unweighted negative Sobolev space must not be assumed either; the stochastic pairing avoids that issue.
Let be the actual joint law. The shift formula gives with Radon-Nikodym derivative . DefineFor each fixed admissible , the moment-generating function of a normal distribution givesBy Tonelli theorem, , so for -almost every . The likelihood is finite and strictly positive for -almost every ; Fubini's theorem then gives for -almost every . The marginal observation law is and is an equivalent probability measure to .
The Bayes formula for a dominated observation model therefore definesTo verify that it is the conditional distribution, for measurable sets of unknowns and of data,Thus the posterior distribution is well defined for almost every observation under the actual data law. This is the appropriate almost-everywhere assertion supplied by Bayes theorem; the stated assumptions do not prescribe a canonical posterior at every exceptional generalized datum.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 3 26K b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The integrands are absolutely integrable because has compact support, , and . Fubini's theorem therefore permits us to insert and interchange the expectation and integrals:With , the inner integral in isNow set . The change of variables giveswhich is the required identity.
Choose any with , , and for which Fourier inversion theorem applies, for example a Gaussian function. The left side factors through the Fourier transform of asOn the right side, andThe dominated convergence theorem and Fourier inversion at zero giveConsequently the Fourier-cutoff recovery of expectations from a characteristic function isThe right side depends only on . Equal characteristic functions therefore give equal expectations for every compactly supported continuous , and part a yields the uniqueness theorem for characteristic functions.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ib Paper 2 2F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Yes. Fubini's theorem and the triangle inequality giveThus is Lipschitz continuous with respect to as well.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 201 4 b Solution 2026-09-28
Since is centered Gaussian with variance ,Fubini's theorem therefore shows that the defining integral for is absolutely finite almost surely.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 327 1 c Solution 2026-09-28
Because , is locally integrable at the origin and has only polynomial growth at infinity, so it defines a tempered distribution. It is a homogeneous distribution of degree and is radial. Its Fourier transform is therefore radial and homogeneous of degree , so it must have the form . In particular, .
To determine the constant, use the stated Gamma integral representation, Fubini's theorem, and the Fourier transform of a Gaussian:The change of variables formula then givesThis is precisely the Fourier transform of the Riesz kernel.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 2 11G i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let and be independent. The displayed Bernstein polynomial isGiven , uniform continuity of supplies such that changing both coordinates by less than changes by less than . If , then Chebyshev inequality and
give, uniformly in ,Thus uniformly.
give, uniformly in ,Thus uniformly.
Each is a polynomial, whose iterated integrals may be interchanged term by term. Uniform convergence permits passage to the limit in both iterated integrals, proving the asserted continuous-function form of Fubini's theorem.
Now suppose every monomial moment of vanishes. By linearity,
for every two-variable polynomial . The just-proved Bernstein approximation gives polynomials uniformly. Thereforeso . Statement (i) is true.
for every two-variable polynomial . The just-proved Bernstein approximation gives polynomials uniformly. Thereforeso . Statement (i) is true.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 4 26G Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
Because the centered normal distribution density is nonnegative and has integral one, Fubini's theorem and translation invariance giveThus .
Use the angular-frequency conventionThe convolution theorem and the Gaussian transform giveSince , this product is integrable. Moreover, absolute integrability justifies exchanging the integrals:This proves the Fourier inversion theorem for the convolution directly.
Now additionally suppose . For every , the dominated convergence theorem givesFourier inversion identifies the right-hand side with for Lebesgue almost everywhere . Therefore the Gaussian approximate identity satisfies
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ib Paper 3 14A a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
By the Fourier inversion theorem and Fubini's theorem,Thus multiplication of Fourier transforms corresponds to the convolution , which is the convolution theorem in the convention used here.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 23F c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Compact support and the fundamental theorem of calculus give, for every ,whereApplying the same argument in the other coordinate gives
Multiplication and Fubini's theorem now yieldFinally, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThus the required estimate holds with ; it is the Ladyzhenskaya inequality in two dimensions.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 2 27K a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Sincethe Fubini's theorem and Fourier inversion giveThus the Plancherel theorem identity in this convention is
The inverse integral is a continuous function of , since permits dominated convergence. If is continuous, it and the inverse integral are continuous and agree almost everywhere. They must agree everywhere: otherwise their continuous difference would be nonzero on an open set of positive measure. This is the continuous version of Fourier inversion.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 105 2 c iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Define on the bilinear formand the linear functionalThe Hardy inequality on an interval, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, and the one-sided Poincare inequality show that is a bounded bilinear form and that
For , , so Cauchy--Schwarz and Fubini's theorem giveHenceThus is a coercive bilinear form. The Lax-Milgram theorem supplies a unique satisfying for every . This is precisely the unique weak solution described by the weak boundary value problem with an inverse-square potential.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 327 1 b i Solution 2026-09-28
LetThe integral is absolutely convergent. For a Schwartz function , Fubini's theorem and integration by parts in giveEquivalently, as a distributional derivative, and hence
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 210 4 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Le Cam two-point lemma states, for squared-error estimation at parameter points , thatTake , . The one-observation uniform densities overlap on length , so . ThereforeThe first distance inequality gives . Le Cam's lemma now yieldsThis proves the claim with the displayed universal positive constant.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 326 2 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The kernel is real and symmetric. For , Fubini's theorem givesso is self-adjoint. It is linear, and because it is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator, hence bounded, with
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 201 4 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The variable is the limit of Riemann sums of the Gaussian process , so it is a Gaussian random variable. Its mean is zero, and Fubini's theorem with givesTherefore .
For positive , integrate from zero to ; for negative , reverse the integral from to zero. This proves the identity without a positivity restriction on the data. For , the absolute integral is bounded by , so Fubini's theorem applies. The zero-function baseline removes the divergence from the negative-height tail.