Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 34 6 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For the diffusion operatora continuous adapted process solves the diffusion martingale problem when, for every ,Here means that the function and its derivatives through order two are bounded and continuous. An equivalent compact-support/local convention is often used for the general martingale problem; the bounded-coefficient setting lets us use the true-martingale convention explicitly. The matrix is interpreted as a covariance matrix in the diffusion formulation, hence is symmetric nonnegative; the displayed operator in any case uses only its symmetric part.
A well-posed martingale problem has existence and uniqueness in law on continuous path space for each specified starting point, or for each initial law in the initial-law formulation. This is uniqueness of the process law, not an assertion of pathwise uniqueness on a prescribed Brownian probability space.