Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2008/iii/paper-37/3/b/solution

Let on . The Radon-Nikodym derivative is nonnegative and . For ,
Uniqueness of the restricted Radon-Nikodym derivative therefore identifies
For , the tower property of conditional expectation gives , and . Thus is a nonnegative true martingale, indeed a uniformly integrable martingale, since it consists of conditional expectations of one integrable random variable. This is the Radon-Nikodym density martingale. Under the usual conditions for a filtration, it has the standard càdlàg version; continuity is the additional assumption in part (c), not a consequence of absolute continuity alone.

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