## Electronic Communications in Probability

### The martingale property in the context of stochastic differential equations

Johannes Ruf

#### Abstract

This note studies the martingale property of a nonnegative, continuous local martingale $Z$, given as a nonanticipative functional of a solution to a stochastic differential equation. The condition states that $Z$ is a (uniformly integrable) martingale if and only if an integral test of a related functional holds.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 20 (2015), paper no. 34, 10 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 25 April 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 7 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465320961

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/ECP.v20-3449

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3342168

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1321.60085

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#### Citation

Ruf, Johannes. The martingale property in the context of stochastic differential equations. Electron. Commun. Probab. 20 (2015), paper no. 34, 10 pp. doi:10.1214/ECP.v20-3449. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465320961

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