Mutual Variation of Itô Stochastic Integrals

Theorem (Mutual variation of Itô Stochastic Integrals)

Let M,NM,N be continuous local martingales. Let X∈Λ2(P,M)X\in\Lambda^{2}(\mathscr{P},M), Y∈Λ2(P,N)Y\in\Lambda^{2}(\mathscr{P},N). We denote X⋅MX\cdot M as X⋅M=(∫1[0,t]X dM)t≥0X\cdot M=\left( \int\limits \mathbb{1}_{[0,t]}X \, dM \right)_{t\ge 0}Then [X⋅M,Y⋅N]t=∫0tXsYs d[M,N]s∀t≥0[X\cdot M,Y\cdot N]_{t}=\int\limits _{0}^{t}X_{s}Y_{s} \, d[M,N]_{s}\quad\forall t\ge 0 In particular: [X⋅M]t=∫0tXs2 d[M]s[X\cdot M]_{t}=\int\limits _{0}^{t}X_{s}^{2} \, d[M]_{s}