Solution

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Let be a martingale deflator for the original arbitrage-free market. Part b shows that
is a local martingale. Thus also deflates the gains of the added asset whose price and dividend are . It already deflates the original assets, so it is a martingale deflator for the enlarged market. The fundamental theorem of asset pricing implies that the enlarged market has no arbitrage. This expresses the fact that adding a dynamically replicated asset cannot create an arbitrage.

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