Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2023 / iii / Paper 202 / 4 / c / Solution

Let $C_t={\int }_0^t{Z}_s^{2}ds$ and ${\tau }_u=\inf \{t:C_t>u\}$. By the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem, $W_u=M_{{\tau }_u}$ is Brownian motion. Setting $Y_u=Z_{{\tau }_u}$ and using $du=Z_t^{2}dt$ transforms the decomposition in part b intoComparison with the Bessel process equation $d{Y}_u=d{W}_u+(d-1)(2Y_u{)}^{-1}du$ givesThus an exponential Brownian motion with drift becomes a Bessel process under its quadratic-variation time change; this is an Exponential Brownian-to-Bessel time change.