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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 33 2 b Solution by
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Since there are finitely many arrival times and each is strictly below one almost surely, almost surely. For every with , all weights have arrived and . Therefore almost surely as .
Nevertheless for every . If the family were uniformly integrable, its almost-sure convergence along any deterministic sequence tending to one would imply convergence in , and hence convergence of expectations to zero. This is impossible. Thus the martingale is not uniformly integrable. Its constant expected mass is carried by increasingly rare, late arrivals.
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