Solution

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First, no arbitrage implies the lower bound
otherwise buy the call and maturity- bonds and short one non-dividend-paying stock; the initial receipt is positive and the terminal payoff is nonnegative. At time , the assumption therefore gives .
If , sell the shorter call and buy the longer one. At time , the longer call's no-arbitrage value covers the shorter call's payoff, with a strictly positive initial receipt. This is impossible, so is nondecreasing.

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