existence/uniqueness of solution and Ito's formula

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Given the Ito SDE $$ dX_t=a(X_t,t)dt + b(X_t,t) dB_t $$ where $a(X_t,t)$ and $ b(X_t,t)$ satisfy the Lipschitz condition for existence and uniqueness of solutions. Given a function $f(X_t,t) ∈ C^2$ using Ito's formula I can derive the SDE

$$ df = \frac{\partial f} {\partial t} dt + \frac{\partial f}{\partial x} dX_t + \frac{1}{2} \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2} dX_t^2 $$

where $dX_t^2$ is computed using Ito's lemma.

The question is: are there any requirements that $f(X_t,t)$ must satisfy to guaranty the existence and uniqueness of solutions (I would say yes).

Any reference is welcome. Thanks in advance.

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You shall distinguish between the equation and the 'direct' definition of something. For example, whenever you have an expression of the form $$ x = g(x) \tag{1} $$ where $g$ is a certain function/operator that is given to you, you may be asked to find $x$ which satisfies such expression. You can never be sure whether such $x$ exists, or whether there is only one such $x$. Indeed, if you change the $x$ in the RHS, the LHS changes as well since it depends on $x$. Anyway, suppose we found such $x$ and it is unique.

Now, imagine that you also have an expression $$ y = h(x) \tag{2}. $$ This is not an equation, but rather a definition of $y$. Indeed, to find the value of $y$ the only thing we need to do is to substitute $x$ (found on the previous step) as an argument of $h$ - that's it.

What do you have in your original post (OP) is that $x$ is the process $(X_t)_{t\geq 0}$ which satisfies $$ X_T = X_0 + \int_0^Ta(X_t,t)\mathrm dt + \int_0^Tb(X_t,t)\mathrm dB_t \tag{$1^\prime$} $$ which can be compactly written through differentials as in your case. Here the operator $g$ as in $(1)$ is just these integrals and functions $a,b$ applied to $X$. Again, the LHS and the RHS both contain $X$, so that it's not obvious whether there exists such $X$ which makes both sides be equal. Thus, we need conditions on $a$ and $b$ to assure such existence, or uniqueness.

Now, let $Y_t = f(X_t,t)$ be another process. For $f\in C^2$ we can use an alternative definition of $Y$: $$ Y_T = Y_0 + \int_0^T\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}(X_t,t)\mathrm dt + \int_0^T \frac{\partial f}{\partial X}(X_t,t)\mathrm dX_t + \int_0^T \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial X^2}(X_t,t)\mathrm dX_t^2 \tag{$2^\prime$} $$ which yet again can be written in a compact symbolic form as via differentials as you did. Here you can think of the RHS as a function of the process $X$: $h((X_t)_{t\geq 0})$. It is only used to define $Y$. The only thing that you need to take care of is that $h$ is defined for a particular value of the argument, that is all the integrals in the RHS of $(2')$ are well-defined. Actually, here the only Ito integral is the middle one (a part of $\mathrm dX_t$) and you indeed shall check that $$ Z_t:=b(X_t,t)\frac{\partial f}{\partial X}(X_t,t) $$ satisfies for example $(iii)$ in Definition 3.1.4 or $(iii)'$ in Definition 3.3.2 of Oksendal: "Stochastic Differential Equations".

As a result, you actually shall not talk about solutions of $(2')$ as much as you don't talk about the solutions of $y = 3$. Instead, you talk about solutions of $x = x^2+1$.