Monday, March 26, 2018

stochastic calculus - Prove uniqueness, and prove Yt is a martingale by considering dZt and dLt


Suppose we are given a filtered probability space (Ω,F,{Ft}t[0,T],P), where {Ft}t[0,T] is the filtration generated by standard P-Brownian motion.



Let dXt=θtdt+dWt be an Ito process where (θt)t[0,T] is Ft-adapated and E[T0θ2sds]< and


Yt:=XtLt,  Lt=expZt,  Zt=t0θsdWs12t0θ2sds


Suppose Novikov's condition holds.


Prove Yt is a (Ft,P)-martingale.




I was able to show that dYt=(LtθtYt)dWt from deriving that dZt=θtdWt12θ2tdt and dLt=eZt(θtdWt).


Assuming that this is right, does the fact that there is no drift term in dYt already establish that Yt is a (Ft,P)-martingale and not merely that it is a local martingale or merely that E[Yt|Fu]=Yu?




Edit: It seems that according to this, a solution of an SDE is a martingale if it is unique.





  1. E[Y20]=E[X20]<, I guess? No initial condition is given for Xt




  2. Show KR s.t.




|Ltθtx|K(1+|x|)


|(Ltθtx)(Ltθty)|K|xy|


We have:



|Ltθtx||Lt|+|θt||x||θt|(1+|x|)


|(Ltθtx)(Ltθty)||θt||xy|


I don't suppose E[T0θ2sds]< means that θt is bounded, does it?




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