Small change in stochastic processes $d \int_0^t \sigma_s^2 ds$

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Let $\sigma_t$ be a stochastic process with $t \geq 0$. With $M_t := \int_0^T E[\sigma_s^2 | \mathscr{F}_t]ds $. Suppose that \begin{equation} M_t = \int_t^T \sigma_t^2e^{-\kappa(s-t)}+\theta(1-e^{-\kappa(s-t)}) ds + \int_0^t \sigma_s^2 ds \end{equation} Why is \begin{equation} dM_t = \int_t^T \kappa\sigma_t^2 e^{-\kappa(s-t)}dt + e^{-\kappa(s-t)}d\sigma_s^2-\kappa \theta e^{-\kappa(s-t)} ds \end{equation} What happened to the "$d\int_0^t \sigma_s^2 ds$" term? Why is it not included in the $dM_t$ term. Not sure if this helps but $\sigma_s^2$ is a CIR process.

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I may have over-extended.


Prologue. Let $V_t = \sigma_t^2$. The CIR dynamics is $$ dV_t = \kappa(\theta - V_t)dt + \nu dW_t. $$ The solution for $s>t$ is $$ V_s = V_te^{-\kappa(s-t)} + \theta\left(1 - e^{-\kappa(s-t)}\right) + \nu\int_t^s e^{-\kappa(s-t)}dW_t. $$ From this, its conditional expectation is given by $$ \mathbb E_t[V_s] = \begin{cases} V_t & s\le t,\\ V_te^{-\kappa(s-t)} + \theta\left(1 - e^{-\kappa\left(s-t\right)}\right) \qquad & s>t. \end{cases} $$ This explains why we have the expression we are computing.


Body. First, we will split the expression into several expressions given by \begin{aligned} M_t = V_t \int_t^Te^{-\kappa(s-t)}ds + \theta\int_t^T\left(1-e^{-\kappa(s-t)}\right)ds + \int_0^tV_sds \triangleq X_t + Y_t + Z_t, \end{aligned} such that $dM_t = dX_t + dY_t + dZ_t$. The easiest of these is $$ dZ_t = \color{red}{V_tdt}. $$

Then, you may also compute (abusing of the notation) $$ dY_t = \frac{\partial Y}{\partial t}dt = -\theta\left(\int_t^T\kappa e^{-\kappa(s-t)}ds\right)dt. $$

Lastly, we have (abusing of the notation, again) \begin{aligned} dX_t &= \frac{\partial X}{\partial t}dt + \frac{\partial X}{\partial V}dV_t + \frac 12\frac{\partial^2 X}{\partial V^2}dV_t^2 \\ &= V_t\left(\int_t^T\kappa e^{-\kappa(s-t)}ds \color{red}{- 1}\right)dt + \left(\int_t^T e^{-\kappa(s-t)}ds\right) dV_t. \end{aligned}

Blending all together, we obtain (notice the terms in $\color{red}{\text{red}}$ cancel each other) $$dM_t = \left(\int_t^Te^{-\kappa(s-t)}ds\right)\left(dV_t - \kappa\left(\theta - V_t\right)dt\right) = \left(\int_t^Te^{-\kappa(s-t)}ds\right)\nu dW_t.$$


Epilogue. This makes sense because $M$ is a martingale as, for $u>t$, $$ \mathbb E_t\left[M_u\right] = \mathbb E_t\left[\int_0^T\mathbb E_u\left[V_s\right]ds\right] = \int_0^T\mathbb E_t\left[\mathbb E_u\left[V_s\right]\right]ds = M_t. $$