Solution

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Write the residual process as
For , the filtration tells us whether each has arrived by time , and its exact arrival time if it has. On , its conditional law is uniform on . Independence of the original means that the histories of the other arrivals do not alter this law. Hence
This conditional identity can also be checked against products of bounded functions of the censored arrival times and extended to by the Monotone class theorem. Summing the identity gives .
Each is adapted and integrable, with
Its paths are smooth between the finitely many arrival times and have downward jumps of size at arrivals before time one. The indicators use , so the value at a jump is the post-jump value: paths are right continuous with finite left limits on . Thus is a càdlàg martingale, specifically the uniform-arrival residual mass martingale.

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