Solution

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The integral against the local-martingale vector is a local martingale, provided the predictable holdings are stochastically integrable. Integrating part (b) gives
Both and the cumulative deflated consumption are nonnegative. Hence . With the usual finite deterministic initial capital, the shifted process
is a nonnegative local martingale, and is therefore a supermartingale. For completeness, a localizing sequence turns it into true martingales; conditional Fatou lemma for their nonnegative stopped values gives the supermartingale inequality and ordinary Fatou gives integrability at each time. Subtracting the initial constant proves
This is supermartingale control of deflated consumption gains. It uses as well as ; an unrestricted stochastic integral is not necessarily a true supermartingale.

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