Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 35 5 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use one -dimensional Brownian motion to couple the diffusion processesThe global existence theorem for stochastic differential equations with Lipschitz coefficients supplies a unique nonexplosive strong stochastic solution. Let be the deterministic drift trajectory. Subtraction and the Gronwall inequality give, on every finite horizon ,This also follows directly from the integral equations with continuous forcing, so the coupling can be chosen simultaneously for all .
For completeness derive the needed Feynman-Kac formula with its potential sign. For fixed , apply the Itô formula and the Itô product rule toIts drift is the exponential factor times , which vanishes by the partial differential equation. It is a local martingale. Boundedness of on the finite time slab and boundedness of make bounded there, so it is a true martingale. Its endpoint expectations giveThe deterministic trajectory on is compact. Uniform pathwise convergence puts all sufficiently small-noise paths in a fixed compact neighbourhood of that trajectory. Continuity of therefore implies ; global uniform continuity of is not required. Continuity of gives convergence of the terminal factor. Finally,The dominated convergence theorem proves the zero-noise limit with a bounded potential:At this is the given initial condition. All boundedness arguments concern a fixed finite horizon; no uniform bound over infinite time is needed.