Solution

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Choose a localizing sequence of discrete-time stopping times for . For fixed integer , every stopped value is bounded in absolute value by the finite sum
That sum is integrable under the hypothesis. Since is a martingale,
The dominated convergence theorem, including its conditional version, now removes the stopping. Thus . The process is adapted and integrable by hypothesis, so is a true discrete-time martingale. This is the integrable discrete-time local martingale is a martingale criterion. The finite sum dominating stopped values is the crucial discrete-time feature.

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