Martingale proof of the integral representation of a Lipschitz function

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For an -Lipschitz function on , its slopes on the dyadic partition, evaluated at a uniform distribution input, form a bounded martingale for the dyadic filtration. The uniformly integrable martingale convergence theorem yields a bounded terminal random variable , with chosen as a Borel measurable function by the Doob-Dynkin lemma. The terminal conditional expectation identity says that each slope is the average of over the corresponding dyadic interval. Integrating over adjacent dyadic intervals and taking a telescoping sum proves the displayed representation first at dyadic endpoints. The Lipschitz condition for and the bound extend it to every endpoint by continuity. This proves absolute continuity of a function without presupposing a derivative.

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