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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 25 6 c Solution by
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Continuity and adaptedness make the first boundary hit a stopping time. A continuous path starting in the open domain cannot leave it before meeting its boundary. Thus , with the usual interpretation when . If on this set, thenThe stopped process is a bounded local martingale; the bounded local martingale criterion makes it a martingale and, in fact, a uniformly integrable martingale. The Martingale convergence theorem gives almost sure and convergence as .
Its limit can also be identified pathwise. On the stopped process is eventually constant at . On its absolute value is at most and hence tends to zero. Thus the limit is .
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