Solution

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The mark-to-market value of holdings in the asset-price vector is the dot product . A self-financing strategy pays for every rebalancing from within the portfolio. Over a short interval, the gains on the currently held assets are , while consumption removes units of wealth. Therefore
The holdings are predictable and integrable against the price semimartingale; the consumption rate is nonnegative and suitably measurable. This is the continuous-time self-financing-with-consumption convention.

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