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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 2 b ii Solution by
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For each positive integer , the events are independent and have divergent total probability by part (i). The Borel-Cantelli second lemma makes them occur infinitely often. Taking the countable intersection over givesIf were finite along any such sample path, then for some finite path-dependent , eventually. But would give eventually, a contradiction. ThereforeThis is the divergence of normalized iid partial sums without a first absolute moment.
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