Checking whether B cubed has zero drift
Question
Let be a standard Brownian motion. Is the process a martingale? Justify your answer.
Short answer
No. By Ito, , which has a non-zero drift. Concretely . The corrected process is a martingale.
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 5.4 Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, 'Ito's lemma B', p.135; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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