Solution

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Write and define the market price of risk
It is bounded by hypothesis. The stochastic exponential
is a true martingale by the Novikov condition. Define the equivalent measure by . The Girsanov theorem makes
a Brownian motion under . After discounting by the bank account, every risky price has zero drift and is a -local martingale.
The discounted wealth of an admissible self-financing strategy is a nonnegative local martingale and hence a supermartingale. If an arbitrage existed, its zero initial value would imply nonpositive expected terminal discounted wealth under , while that wealth is nonnegative and positive with positive -probability. This contradiction proves that the market has no arbitrage; it is the needed direction of the equivalent local martingale measure criterion.

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