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/*
 Copyright (C) 2003 Ferdinando Ametrano
 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Sadruddin Rejeb
 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 StatPro Italia srl

 This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library
 for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/

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*/

/*! \file geometricbrownianprocess.hpp
    \brief Geometric Brownian-motion process
*/

#ifndef quantlib_geometric_brownian_process_hpp
#define quantlib_geometric_brownian_process_hpp

#include <ql/stochasticprocess.hpp>

namespace QuantLib {

    //! Geometric brownian-motion process
    /*! This class describes the stochastic process governed by
        \f[
            dS(t, S)= \mu S dt + \sigma S dW_t.
        \f]

        \ingroup processes
    */
    class GeometricBrownianMotionProcess : public StochasticProcess1D {
      public:
        GeometricBrownianMotionProcess(double initialValue,
                                       double mue,
                                       double sigma);
        Real x0() const;
        Real drift(Time t, Real x) const;
        Real diffusion(Time t, Real x) const;
      protected:
        double initialValue_;
        double mue_;
        double sigma_;
    };

}


#endif