Drift that makes the tenth power of W a martingale
Question
Let be standard Brownian motion and an adapted process, and consider (the integral uses a dummy variable ). The choice of that turns into a martingale has the form for constants and . Compute the product .
Short answer
. By Ito's formula , so the drift of is . Cancelling it needs , so , and .
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