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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 38 2 d Solution by
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For the integrable terminal bracket criterion, assume , or more generally . This initial-value assumption is necessary if it is not already part of the notation: an integrable but non-square-integrable random constant process has zero quadratic variation and still fails square-integrability.
For the zero-starting case, choose a localizing sequence bounding both and its quadratic variation. The stopped processes are true square-integrable martingales, and the Itô isometry givesFor each fixed time these variables are uniformly integrable by their bounded second moments. Almost sure convergence as is therefore convergence in . Passing to the limit in the stopped conditional-expectation identity gives : the local martingale is a true martingale. The Fatou lemma also givesso belongs to the global space. For general square-integrable , apply this argument to and use .
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