Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-201/1/b/solution

Uniqueness means almost sure equality. Suppose that two -measurable integrable random variables and satisfy the integral identity from part (a). The event belongs to , and hence
The integrand is nonnegative and is positive precisely on , so . Interchanging and gives , and therefore almost surely.

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