Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 38 1 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Write for the driving Brownian motion throughout; the two symbols in the displayed formulas refer to the same process. For the deterministic integrand is square-integrable on , sois well defined. The Itô product rule, with zero quadratic covariation against the deterministic factor, givesFor the other form, apply the same Itô product rule to :Multiplying by gives the stochastic integral representation of a Brownian bridgeThe drift coefficient is singular only at the terminal endpoint, so this calculation is performed on compact subintervals of .
Time reversal of a Brownian bridge 2026-10-14
The Brownian bridge covariance kernel is invariant under reversing both times, and its mean is zero. The two centered Gaussian processes therefore have equal finite-dimensional laws. Equality on countably many rational coordinates transfers the event of continuity at zero to the reversed endpoint. Interior continuity then extends the rational-time limit to all times. This proves the terminal continuity of the stochastic integral representation of a Brownian bridge.