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I am trying to prove that the following integral is almost surely finite.

Assume $X$ is a stochastic process such that $$ dX_t = \kappa (\theta - X_t)dt + \sigma\sqrt{X_t}dW_t . $$ I would like to prove that for $ n\in\mathbb{N} $ and $T>0$ we have that $$ \int_0^T |X_t|^ndt < \infty \quad\mathbb{P}-a.s. $$ I do not know whether it is true or not! Thank you in advance!

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    Have a look here to my answer to this post here : https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/944181/martingality-theorem-solving-expectation-of-a-stochastic-integral/953779#953779 – TheBridge Mar 14 '24 at 07:34

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As mentioned here Does finite expectation imply bounded random variable?, it suffices to show that

$$ \int_0^T E[|X_t|^n]dt < \infty. $$

We will simply use Application of the Burkholder Davis Gundy inequality

Let $X$ be a weak solution of $$dX_t=b(t,X_t)dt+\sigma(t,X_t)dW_t$$ With $b$ and $\sigma$ continuous and satisfying the linear growth condition: $$|b(t,x)|+|\sigma(t,x)|\leq K(1+|x|)$$ Then for any finite time $T$ and $p\geq 2$ there is a constant $C$ such that $$\mathbb{E}\sup_{t\leq T}|X_t|^p\leq Ce^{CT}(1+\mathbb{E}|X_0|^p)$$

This is the case here since $\sqrt{x}\leq |x|$ for all large enough $x$. So for $n\geq 2$, we bound

$$ \int_0^T E[|X_t|^n]dt \leq TCe^{CT}(1+\mathbb{E}|X_0|^n). $$

For $n=1$, we simply bound $E|X|\leq \sqrt{E|X|^{2}}$.

Thomas Kojar
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