Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 30 3 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use the Itô product rule with the deterministic factor . Its quadratic covariation with is zero, givingMultiplication by the integrating factor solves the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic differential equation:The initial value is standard normal and independent of the future driving Brownian motion. Thus is a centered Gaussian process with variance one. For , its independent future noise gives . Its Gaussian finite-dimensional distributions consequently depend only on time differences, so it is a stationary process. This verifies the exponential Brownian time change to a stationary Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process directly.
Stationary drift saturation 2026-10-14
For an adapted stationary process with the displayed bounds, the Itô formula and stationarity give . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality makes each integrand nonnegative, so equality holds almost everywhere. Then , proving for almost every time and outcome. Thus the process solves the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic differential equation and its initial value, rather than stationarity alone, determines its coupling with W.
In the long-time growing horizontal-gradient branch, independent vertical shear noises combine as . The signed inclination satisfies the displayed Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic differential equation. For its stationary density is , with variance . The Fokker-Planck probability current vanishes at infinity and gives this Gaussian by one integration. At and nonzero noise there is no normalizable stationary density.