Itô product rule 2026-09-24
For continuous semimartingales,
It is the stochastic counterpart of the ordinary product rule; the quadratic covariation supplies the additional second-order term.
Because independent Brownian motions have zero quadratic covariation, the Itô product rule gives
After integration, the random variable in the question is . Writing for independent standard Gaussian random variables , its distribution is
the scaled product of two independent standard normal random variables.
The martingale product identity says that is a martingale. Passing to the terminal values of the square-integrable martingales and using gives
The quadratic covariation identity for a stochastic integral is
Applying the same product identity to and therefore gives