Completeness and uniqueness of dominated martingale measures
ID: completeness-and-uniqueness-of-dominated-martingale-measures
In an arbitrage-free one-period market with finitely many assets and an equivalent martingale measure, market completeness is equivalent to uniqueness of the dominated martingale measure. Completeness prices every indicator function, forcing two measures to agree on every event. Conversely, if the attainable payoff span has dimension but is not the whole payoff space, choose disjoint positive-probability events. Their moment vectors against a basis of attainable payoffs are linearly dependent. A nonzero bounded linear combination of their indicators consequently has zero pricing moments. Multiplying an existing equivalent density by , for sufficiently small positive and negative , constructs distinct equivalent martingale measures. This proves the converse without assuming that the original space was finite. On a general probability space, completeness here means replication of all bounded claims, or equivalently all square-integrable claims when asset payoffs are square-integrable.
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