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The square root is concave on $[0,\infty )$, and $\sqrt{S_T}$ is integrable since $\mathbb{E}\sqrt{S_T}\le \sqrt{\mathbb{E}{S}_T}$. For $t\le T_1\le T_2$, the conditional Jensen inequality and the martingale property giveTaking conditional expectations with respect to ${\mathcal{F}}_t$ and using the tower property of conditional expectation yieldsThus the maturity curve for a square-root stock claim is nonincreasing; it need not be strictly decreasing, as a constant stock gives equality. The inequality holds for every ordered pair of maturities. Under the usual right-continuous versions of the market processes, it gives the corresponding nonincreasing version of the maturity curve.

For a square-root stock claim priced by $C(t,T)=\mathbb{E}[\sqrt{S_T}\mid {\mathcal{F}}_t]$, the constant-volatility geometric Brownian motion price is $\sqrt{S_t}\exp (-{\sigma }^2(T-t)/8)$. If $t<T$, $S_t>0$ and $0<C(t,T)\le \sqrt{S_t}$, its unique nonnegative inverse volatility is the displayed $\Sigma (t,T)$. For bounded predictable volatility in $dS=S\sigma dW$, bounds $0\le a\le \sigma \le b$ give $a\le \Sigma \le b$, without independence from the Brownian motion. At zero stock price the claim price is also zero and no volatility is identified by this equation; a separate convention is needed.