I'm preparing for an exam in my course Martingales & Stochastic Integrals. Currently I'm having a look at some old exams, and there's a question on one of them that I'm not able to figure out. The teacher has not provided any solutions so now I'm asking you.
Assignment: Determine the continuous square integrable martingale $M = ( M_t , t \geq 0 )$ and the associated filtration, given $ M_0 = 0 $ and the quadratic variation $\langle M\rangle_t =\log(1+t^2) $ (the natural logarithm of course).
The only thing I've come up with is that $ M_t^2 -\langle M\rangle_t $ is supposed to be a martingale, hence $ E(M_t^2 - \langle M\rangle _t) = E(M_0^2 -\langle M\rangle _0), $ which by definition yields $ E(M_t^2 -\langle M\rangle _t) = 0. $ Thus $ M_t^2 = \log(1+t^2) $ $ M_t = \sqrt{\log(1+t^2)}. $
Could this really be correct? Does anyone know the solution or at least have the link to some free lecture notes where I can learn to solve this?