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We study the connections of two different pathwise hedging approaches. These approaches are BSV by Bender-Sottinen-Valkeila and CF by Cont-Fournié. We prove that both approaches give the same pathwise hedges, whenever both of the strategies exist. We also prove BSV type robust replication result for CF strategies.
We prove change of variables formulas [Itô formulas] for functions of both arithmetic and geometric averages of geometric fractional Brownian motion. They are valid for all convex functions, not only for smooth ones. These change of variables formulas provide us integral representations of functions of average in the sense of generalized Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral.
Fractional Brownian motion can be represented as an integral of a deterministic kernel w.r.t. an ordinary Brownian motion either on infinite or compact interval. In previous literature fractional Lévy processes are defined by integrating the infinite interval kernel w.r.t. a general Lévy process. In this article we define fractional Lévy processes using the compact interval representation. We prove that the fractional Lévy processes presented via different integral transformations have the same finite dimensional distributions if and only if they are fractional Brownian motions. Also, we present relations between different fractional Lévy processes and analyze the properties of such processes. A financial example is introduced as well.
If we compose a smooth function g with fractional Brownian motion B with Hurst index H > 1/2, then the resulting change of variables formula [or It/^o- formula] has the same form as if fractional Brownian motion would be a continuous function with bounded variation. In this note we prove a new integral representation formula for the running maximum of a continuous function with bounded variation. Moreover we show that the analogue to fractional Brownian motion fails.