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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2008 A 3 b iii Solution by
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In any proposed decomposition, is integrable. Its increment is -measurable by predictability. Taking conditional expectation of the difference equation givesThe martingale increment has conditional mean zero, and a measurable integrable variable equals its own conditional expectation. Starting from , summation gives . Hence . Thus the normalized predictable decomposition is unique, with a common probability-one event available for all integer times by countability.
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