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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 211 3 c Solution by
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Let . Choose . Boundedness of the minimizers and the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem yield a subsequence, still indexed by , with . Each is deterministic, hence so is . The first exponential term givesand passing to the limit gives .
To obtain the superhedging inequality, suppose instead that . There is then an such that the event has positive probability. Let almost surely. For all sufficiently large ,Consequently on , givinga contradiction. The limiting portfolio meets both constraints:Bounded is used precisely to turn convergence of deterministic holdings into a uniform bound on the payoff error.
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