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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 39 4 c Solution by
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Use the discounted wealth and the discounted dividend gainsThe integral uses : the printed inside an integral indexed by is a differential typo. Since is a positive finite-variation process, the Itô product rule givesThe bank-account terms cancel using .
If is a -martingale, discounted self-financing wealth is a -local martingale. The admissible trading strategy lower bound makes it a supermartingale, exactly as in the previous no-arbitrage proof. A zero-cost portfolio with nonnegative terminal wealth must therefore have terminal wealth zero -almost surely and, by equivalence, physically almost surely. Hence an equivalent martingale measure for discounted dividend gains excludes arbitrage. It is the gains process, not just the ex-dividend price ratio, that must have zero martingale drift.
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