Left-endpoint approximation of a continuous semimartingale integral
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For a left-continuous locally bounded adapted process and a continuous semimartingale , the elementary predictable left-endpoint approximations tend pointwise to . Decompose into a continuous local martingale and a continuous finite-variation process. After localization, dominated convergence with respect to the variation measure handles the finite-variation integral. The Itô isometry and Doob L2 maximal inequality handle the martingale integral. The omitted partial last interval is bounded by the local bound on times the modulus of continuity of . This proves uniform convergence on compacts in probability and is the grid-sum foundation of the Itô product rule.
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