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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 1 30K c iii Solution by
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Assume (iii). Fix and , and defineThis is a stopping time: . Applying (iii) at time first to and then to the deterministic stopping time givesSubtracting yieldsBy the defining characterization of conditional expectation, this says . Thus is a martingale, proving (i). Together the three implications establish the characterization of a martingale by stopped expectations.
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