Solution

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The one-period fundamental theorem of asset pricing, applied as a separating-hyperplane theorem to the cone of attainable payoffs, gives the superhedging duality
where the supremum is over martingale deflators. The assumed strict inequalities make the right side strictly below . Hence some satisfies and almost surely.

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