Solution

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There is no arbitrage. Indeed, part (iii) supplies an equivalent martingale measure, so the fundamental theorem of asset pricing implies absence of arbitrage. Directly, the discounted terminal value of a zero-cost admissible self-financing strategy is a -martingale with mean zero; it cannot be nonnegative almost surely and positive with positive probability.

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