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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 2 29K v Solution by
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Suppose the claim , payable at time , were replicable. Holdings chosen at time zero are constants, so the time- value of any self-financing portfolio has the affine formBut has a continuous positive density on . No affine function of can equal the quadratic function almost surely. Therefore is not attainable and the market is not complete.
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