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Let B be Standard Brownian Motion, $B_0 =0$

Consider the SDE: $dX_t = (6 + 3X_t)dt +(2+X_t)dB_t$, for the stochastic process $X = (X_t)_{t \geqslant 0}$, where $X_0 = 1$

The coefficients to this SDE satisfy the Libschitz condition, so there is a unique strong solution $X$ to this equation. It is given by:

$X_t = Y_t(1 + 4 \int_0^t \frac{1}{Y_s}ds + 2\int_0^t \frac{1}{Y_s}dB_s)$ for $t \geqslant 0$

where, $dY_t = 3Y_tdt + Y_tdB_t$ with $Y_0 =1$

Questions:

1) Compute $\mathbb{E}[X,Y]$, where $[X,Y]$ := Quadratic variation

2) Show the following holds in law:

$X_t -Y_t(1+2\int_0^t \frac{1}{Y_s}dB_s) \stackrel{law}{=}4\int_0^t Y_sds$

My attempt:

1) $[X,Y] = \frac{1}{4}([X+Y, X+Y] - [X-Y, X-Y])$

Bearing in mind that: $Y_t = 1+ \int 3Y_sds + \int Y_sdB_s$

$[X+Y, X+Y] = \int_0^t Y_s^2ds + 4Y_t^2 \int_0^t \frac{1}{Y_s^2}ds$

$[X-Y, X-Y] = 4Y_t^2 \int_0^t \frac{1}{Y_s^2}ds$

so $\mathbb{E}[X,Y] = \frac{1}{4}\mathbb{E}\int_0^t Y_s^2ds = \frac{1}{4}\int_0^t \mathbb{E}Y_s^2ds$

$dY_t$ denotes SDE for Geometric Brownian motion so $Y_t = exp(B_t - \frac{s^2}{2})$

.....then result follows quite easily.

However, was my manipulations with the quadratic variation correct?

2) Plugging in X_t into the question yields:

$Y_t\int _0^t \frac{1}{Y_s}ds \stackrel{law}{=} \int_{0}^{t} Y_sdB_s$

If both sides were a strong solution to an SDE then by uniqueness they'd be equal in law. However I am not sure how to generate such an SDE. Any ideas?

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