A change of variable formula with It\^{o} correction term
Abstract
We consider the solution to a stochastic heat equation. For fixed , the process has a nontrivial quartic variation. It follows that is not a semimartingale, so a stochastic integral with respect to cannot be defined in the classical It\^{o} sense. We show that for sufficiently differentiable functions , a stochastic integral exists as a limit of discrete, midpoint-style Riemann sums, where the limit is taken in distribution in the Skorokhod space of cadlag functions. Moreover, we show that this integral satisfies a change of variable formula with a correction term that is an ordinary It\^{o} integral with respect to a Brownian motion that is independent of .
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@article{arxiv.0802.3356,
title = {A change of variable formula with It\^{o} correction term},
author = {Krzysztof Burdzy and Jason Swanson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3356},
year = {2010}
}
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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP523 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)