Properties and classic martingales of Brownian motion
Question
State the definition of a standard Brownian motion, list its key properties, and name the standard martingales built from it.
Short answer
, continuous paths, independent increments with . Properties: Gaussian process with , Markov, scale-invariant ( is again Brownian), quadratic variation , nowhere differentiable, recurrent in one dimension. Classic martingales are , and .
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 5.4 Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, 'Brownian motion A', p.128; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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