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Relative to a filtration satisfying the usual conditions, a local martingale is an adapted càdlàg process for which there exist increasing stopping times almost surely such that every stopped process is an integrable martingale. Thus, for ,
The sequence is a localizing sequence. A continuous local martingale additionally has continuous sample paths. The usual definition entails integrability of the initial value; local martingales need not be integrable at later times without stopping.

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