We study the semimartingale properties for the generalized fractional Brownian motion (GFBM) introduced by Pang and Taqqu (2019). We discuss the applications of the GFBM and its mixtures in financial models, including stock price models, arbitrage and rough volatility. The GFBM is self-similar and has nonstationary increments, whose Hurst parameter H ∈ (0, 1) is determined by two parameters. We identify the region of these two parameter values in which the GFBM is a semimartingale. We also establish the p-variation results of the GFBM, which are used to provide an alternative proof of the non-semimartingale property when H < 1/2. We then study the semimartingale properties of the mixed process of an independent Brownian motion and a GFBM when the Hurst parameter H ∈ (1/2, 1), and derive the associated equivalent Brownian measure.
INTRODUCTIONSemimartingale and non-semimartingale properties of the standard fractional Brownian motion (FBM) B H and its mixtures are well understood. These properties are important in modeling stock price [23,34], constructing arbitrage strategies and hedging policies [33,41,37,13], and modeling rough volatility [20,7, 44]. The standard FBM B H captures short/long-range dependence, and possesses the self-similar and stationary increment properties, as well as regular path properties. It may arise as the limit process of scaled random walks with long-range dependence or an integrated shot noise process [32].A generalized fractional Brownian motion (GFBM) X, introduced by Pang and Taqqu [31], is a selfsimilar Gaussian process, but does not have the stationary increments property. See the definition of the process in (2.1). The Hurst parameter H ∈ (0, 1) is determined by two-parameters (α, γ) in the range shown in Figure 1. The GFBM X is derived as the limit of integrated power-law shot noise processes in [31] (see a brief review in Section 6.1). We have studied in [21] some important path properties of the GFBM X, including the Hölder continuity property, the differentiability and non-differentiability properties, and functional and local law of the iterated logarithm, see Section 2 for a summary of its fundamental properties.