Proof verification: conditional distribution of integral of brownian motion

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I am looking to compute the conditional distribution of
$$S_T=\int_0^T W_t dt$$
given $W_T=x$. Thanks to this question and using the fact that $d(tW_t)=W_tdt + tdW_t$ by Itô's formula, we get
\begin{align*}
W_t dt &= d(tW_t) – t dW_t\\
S_T=\int_0^T W_t dt & = T W_T – \int_0^T t dW_t
\end{align*}

and hence $\mathbb{E}[S_T|W_T = x]= Tx$ because the second term is the stochastic integral of a deterministic process, which is normally distributed with mean 0. Furthermore,
\begin{alignat*}{2}
\text{Var}(S_T|W_T=x) & = \text{Var}\left(Tx – \int_0^T t dW_t\right)\\
&= \text{Var}\left(\int_0^T t dW_t\right)\\
& = \mathbb{E}\left[\left(\int_0^T t dW_t\right)^2\right] &&\text{ null mean}\\
&= \int_0^T t^2 dt &&\text{ isometry}\\
& = \frac{T^3}{3}
\end{alignat*}

Is this correct?

Best Answer

I provide details for the hint given by @NateEldredge in the comments.

First, by witnessing the random vector $(S_T, W_T)$ as the $L^2$-limit of Gaussian vectors, we note that $(S_T, W_T)$ itself is Gaussian. As you have observed, integration by parts gives us $$S_T = TW_T - \int_0^T s dW_s$$ From here, we get $E(S_T) = 0$ and $$\begin{align*} E(S_T^2) &= T^2 E(W_T^2) - 2T E \left(W_T \int_0^T s dW_s\right) + E \left[\left(\int_0^T s dW_s\right)^2\right] \\ &= T^3 - 2T E \int_0^T s ds + E \int_0^T s^2 ds \\ &= \frac{T^3}{3} \end{align*}$$ where we use the Itô isometry to compute the second and third terms. Likewise, we have $E(W_T) = 0$, $E(W_T^2)=T$, and, $$ \begin{align*} E(S_T W_T) &= E \left(TW_T^2 - W_T \int_0^T sdW_s\right) =\frac{T^2}{2} \end{align*}$$

Thus, $(S_T, W_T) \sim N (0, \Sigma)$ where $$\begin{align*} \Sigma &= \begin{pmatrix} \frac{T^3}{3} & \frac{T^2}{2} \\ \frac{T^2}{2} & T \end{pmatrix} \end{align*}$$

It follows for the formula for bivariate normal distributions that $$S_T | (W_T = x) \sim N \left( \frac{T}{2}x, \frac{T^3}{12} \right)$$

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