Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/iii/paper-201/1/c/solution

Take independent and identically distributed random variables with the Bernoulli distribution of parameter , and their natural filtration. Set
The event at is the whole sample space. Independence gives
so this is a nonnegative martingale; it is integrable with . The first zero among the is almost surely finite, since the probability of having only ones through time is . After that first zero, every is zero. Hence the almost sure limit is zero:
This fair-coin doubling martingale also exhibits failure of uniform integrability: convergence in L1 would force the expectations to converge to zero.

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