Strict Local Martingale. Here, we give an example of a local martingale which is not a martingale,
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Strict Local Martingale. Here, we give an example of a local martingale which is not a martingale, i.e., a strict local martingale. Let \(M\) be a continuous martingale such that \(M_{0}=1\) and define \(T_{0}=\inf \left\{t: M_{t}=0\right\}\). We assume that \(\mathbb{P}\left(T_{0}<\infty\right)=1\). We introduce the probability measure \(\mathbb{Q}\) as \(\left.\mathbb{Q}\right|_{\mathcal{F}_{t}}=\left.M_{t \wedge T_{0}} \mathbb{P}\right|_{\mathcal{F}_{t}}\). It follows that \[\begin{equation*}
\mathbb{Q}\left(T_{0}
i.e., \(\mathbb{Q}\left(T_{0}=\infty\right)=1\). The process \(X\) defined by \(\left(X_{t}=M_{t}^{-1}, t \geq 0\right)\) is a \(\mathbb{Q}\) local martingale and is positive. It is not a martingale: indeed its expectation is not constant \[\mathbb{E}_{\mathbb{Q}}\left(X_{t}\right)=\mathbb{E}_{\mathbb{P}}\left(\frac{M_{t \wedge T_{0}}}{M_{t}}\right)=\mathbb{P}\left(t
where \(\beta\) is a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Brownian motion. Hence, the process \(B\) is a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Bessel process of dimension 3.
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Mathematical Methods For Financial Markets
ISBN: 9781447125242
1st Edition
Authors: Monique Jeanblanc, Marc Yor, Marc Chesney