Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 36 4 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Put , , and write , where and . The Itô isometry and boundedness giveContinuity and boundedness of then imply . Since has mean zero,For the variance, . The remaining terms satisfyContinuity of and the initial convergence give . Expanding the variance and dividing by proves the initial mean and variance derivatives of an Itô diffusion:The derivatives at the initial time are right derivatives because the process is indexed by .