Doob L2 maximal inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a square-integrable martingale starting at zero,For a continuous local martingale stopped so that its quadratic variation is integrable, the Itô isometry makes the right-hand side .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 202 2 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Use the continuous semimartingale decomposition , where is a continuous local martingale and is a continuous adapted finite-variation process. Pointwise limits preserve predictability, so is predictable; it is bounded by the common bound for the .
Localize so that and the total variation are bounded. The Doob L2 maximal inequality and the Itô isometry giveby the dominated convergence theorem. For the finite-variation part,almost surely, again by dominated convergence, now for each sample path. Hence the two integrals converge uniformly in probability after every localization. Part (b) removes the localization and provesu.c.p.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 353 1 c i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The stationary solution ofisIt follows from the Itô isometry thatThus is zero-mean colored noise with correlation time . The equation is an overdamped harmonic particle of mobility driven by that correlated random force.