Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-211/1/c/solution

We prove the contrapositive. Let
The function is constant along , so minimize it on . Suppose there is no with almost surely and strict inequality with positive probability. If a sequence satisfies , pass to a subsequence with
Because and there is no arbitrage direction, . On that event, , and Fatou lemma gives . Hence every finite sublevel set of in is bounded. It is also closed, so attains its infimum there and has a bounded minimizing sequence. This contradicts the assumption. Therefore there is a unit vector satisfying

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