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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2007 A 3 b ii Solution by
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The products are nonnegative and measurable. independence and the unit means give , so they are integrable.
Let be the natural filtration. It is contained in , so is independent of even if some products have vanished. Using the bounded or integrable nonnegative conditional-product identity,Thus is a martingale in its natural filtration.
Doob's convergence theorem in the form needed here states that a nonnegative supermartingale converges almost surely to a finite integrable limit; more generally a submartingale with uniformly bounded first absolute moments has such an almost sure convergence. Applying it to givesThe expected value bound follows from Fatou's lemma. The theorem does not assert convergence or equality of expected values without a uniform-integrability hypothesis.
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