Martingale Representation of Functionals of Lévy Processes

Abstract The main focus of the paper is a Clark–Ocone–Haussman formula for Lévy processes. First a difference operator is defined via the Fock space representation of L 2(P), then from this definition a Clark–Ocone–Haussman type formula is derived. We also derive some explicit chaos expansions for some common functionals. Later we prove that the difference operator defined via the Fock space representation and the difference operator defined by Picard [Picard, J. Formules de dualitésur l'espace de Poisson. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré 1996, 32 (4), 509–548] are equal. Finally, we give an example of how the Clark–Ocone–Haussman formula can be used to solve a hedging problem in a financial market modelled by a Lévy process.

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