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Symmetric martingales and symmetric smiles

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A local martingale X is called arithmetically symmetric if the conditional distribution of XT-Xt is symmetric given , for all 0 T- t) for all 0 =0. The notion of a geometrically symmetric martingale is also defined and characterized as the Doléans-Dade exponential of an arithmetically symmetric local martingale. As an application of these results, we show that a market model of the implied volatility surface that is initially flat and that remains symmetric for all future times must be the Black-Scholes model.

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  • Tehranchi, Michael R., 2009. "Symmetric martingales and symmetric smiles," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 119(10), pages 3785-3797, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:119:y:2009:i:10:p:3785-3797
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