Mean, variance and SDE of root-t times Brownian motion
Question
Let be standard Brownian motion and . Find and , and derive the SDE satisfied by .
Short answer
Mean , variance , and . The moments follow from . For the SDE, apply the product rule to ; there is no Ito correction because is deterministic and differentiable.
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 5.4 Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, 'Ito's lemma A', p.134; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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