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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 202 1 d Solution by
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Fix a L2-bounded continuous martingale . Its quadratic-variation measure on the predictable sigma-algebra isIt is finite, since . The source Hilbert space is : predictable processes with finite , identified when equal -almost everywhere. Its norm is .
The target consists of L2-bounded continuous martingales starting at zero, identified up to indistinguishability of stochastic processes, with norm . It is a Hilbert space: terminal values belong to the closed linear subspace of whose conditional expectation given is zero and whose associated martingales have continuous versions. Closure of that continuous-version subspace follows from the Doob L2 maximal inequality and an almost surely uniformly convergent subsequence.
The Itô isometry says that integration extends uniquely from simple predictable processes to a linear isometry , withFor every finite , the same identity holds with the integral restricted to and the left side . No claim of surjectivity onto all of is needed: that would require an additional Martingale representation theorem.
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