Bounded Girsanov drift does not preserve true martingales under compensation

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Let be a P-Brownian motion on and tilt by the bounded constant drift integrand one, so . Then is Q-Brownian motion, either by Girsanov theorem or direct Gaussian exponential tilting. Set ,
The density of under P is , so . Independence of future Brownian increments makes a continuous true P-martingale. Under Q, that density is multiplied by , so .
For , its compensated local martingale is
The future Q-Brownian increment is independent of the positive variable and has positive finite mean absolute value. Hence the displayed variable has infinite expected absolute value under Q and is not a true martingale. This shows why the general Girsanov theorem promises a local martingale, while a true-martingale conclusion needs an additional integrability condition such as Girsanov compensation with square-integrable input.

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