The exponential martingale of a Brownian motion #
For a real parameter θ and a Brownian motion W, the process
Z_t = exp (θ W_t - θ² t / 2)
(TauCeti.Probability.exponentialMartingale θ W) is a strictly positive martingale with
E[Z_t] = 1, relative to every filtration for which W is a Brownian motion. It is the density
process of the change of measure in Girsanov's theorem: tilting the reference measure P by
θ W_T, that is dQ = Z_T dP, gives a probability measure equivalent to P, and on the events
known at time t ≤ T this measure has density Z_t. With θ = -κ for a market price of risk
κ, Q is the candidate for the risk-neutral measure of the Black–Scholes market; identifying it
as such requires Girsanov's theorem and the martingale property of discounted prices under Q,
which are not proved here.
Brownian motion relative to a filtration is
TauCeti.Probability.IsFilteredPreBrownianReal, from
TauCeti.Probability.BrownianMotion.Filtered.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.Probability.exponentialMartingale: the processexp (θ W_t - θ² t / 2).ProbabilityTheory.IsPreBrownianReal.integral_exponentialMartingale:E[Z_t] = 1.ProbabilityTheory.IsPreBrownianReal.memLp_exponentialMartingale:Z_thas finite moments of every finite order, since each real power ofZ_tis a multiple of another exponential martingale (TauCeti.Probability.rpow_exponentialMartingale).TauCeti.Probability.IsFilteredPreBrownianReal.martingale_exponentialMartingale:Zis a martingale.ProbabilityTheory.IsPreBrownianReal.tilted_mul_eval_eq_withDensity: tilting byθ W_Tis the change of measure with densityZ_T.ProbabilityTheory.IsPreBrownianReal.integrable_exp_mul_eval:exp (θ W_T)is integrable, so Mathlib'sMeasureTheory.isProbabilityMeasure_tilted,MeasureTheory.absolutelyContinuous_tiltedandMeasureTheory.tilted_absolutelyContinuousshow that the tilted measure is a probability measure equivalent toP.TauCeti.Probability.IsFilteredPreBrownianReal.tilted_mul_eval_apply: onℱ_t,t ≤ T, the tilted measure has densityZ_t.
References #
- I. Karatzas, S. E. Shreve, Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, Springer, 1991, §3.5.
- S. E. Shreve, Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models, Springer, 2004, §5.2.
With parameter 0 the exponential martingale is constantly 1.
The exponential martingale of a process adapted to ℱ is adapted to ℱ.
exp (θ B_t) is integrable.
The exponential martingale is integrable at every time.
The exponential martingale has expectation 1 at every time.
The exponential martingale has finite moments of every finite order.
Tilting P by θ B_T is the change of measure with density exp (θ B_T - θ² T / 2).
The exponential martingale exp (θ W_t - θ² t / 2) of a Brownian motion relative to ℱ is a
martingale relative to ℱ.
On an event A known at time t ≤ T, the tilt of P by θ W_T has density Z_t:
Q(A) = E[Z_t; A].