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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 202 4 b Solution by
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With zero interest rate, the bank account is constant. The risky asset is a continuous local martingale by assumption, while the European contingent claim priceis a true martingale by the defining property of conditional expectation. Thus the original probability measure is an equivalent local martingale measure for all traded discounted prices. The fundamental theorem of asset pricing then excludes arbitrage for admissible self-financing strategies.
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