Solution

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Write for holdings of cash, the stock and the European put option, and let be initial consumption. At the given price, , and the three terminal payoffs, in descending order of the stock price, are
Nonnegative terminal payoffs require and . Together with , these imply . If they force , which is not an arbitrage. If , the highest-state payoff is at least , so every such choice is an arbitrage. Consequently the complete set is
The pure-investment arbitrages are exactly the choices :
For example, costs zero and pays .

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