Stochastic
Quadratic Covariation Differentiation Theory
For
a little more than sixty years the classical Ito calculus existed only
as an integral calculus without a definition of a stochastic derivative
of a semimartingale with respect to another semimartingale that's an
anti Ito-integral and that leads to a corresponding systematic theory of
pathwise differentiation. In 2004 I completed the elements of
this theory (including a fundamental theorem of stochastic calculus, a
differential chain rule, a differential mean-value theorem, other
differentiation rules and formulas, and more), and parts of this work
are published in my "A Differentiation Theory for Ito's Calculus" 2006
paper.