Itô's Formula

Theorem (Itô’s Formula)

Let (Mt)t≥0(M_{t})_{t\ge 0} be a continuous local martingale, let (Vt)t≥0(V_{t})_{t\ge 0} be a continuous process of Finite Variation (i.e. locally bounded). Let f∈C0(R2;R)f\in C^{0}(\mathbb{R}^{2}; \mathbb{R}) with ∂f∂x,∂f∂y,∂2f∂x2\frac{ \partial f }{ \partial x },\frac{ \partial f }{ \partial y },\frac{ \partial ^{2}f }{ \partial x^{2} } C0C^{0} on R2\mathbb{R}^{2}. Then we have a.s. ∀t≥0\forall t\ge 0: f(Mt,Vt)=f(M0,V0)+∫1[0,t]∂f∂x(M,V) dM+∫[0,t]∂f∂y(Ms,Vs) dVs+12∫[0,t]∂2f∂x2(Ms,Vs) d[M]s\begin{align*} &f(M_{t},V_{t})\\&= f(M_{0},V_{0})+\int\limits \mathbb{1}_{[0,t]}\frac{ \partial f }{ \partial x } (M,V) \, dM +\int\limits _{[0,t]}\frac{ \partial f }{ \partial y } (M_{s},V_{s}) \, dV_{s} + \frac{1}{2}\int\limits _{[0,t]} \frac{ \partial ^{2}f }{ \partial x^{2} } (M_{s},V_{s}) \, d[M]_{s} \end{align*}