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Past exam of the probability, measure and martingales course of the University of Oxford 2021 1 b iii Solution by
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The adapted process is bounded by , so every is an integrable random variable, indeed a square-integrable random variable. Independence of from and its continuous uniform distribution giveThis calculation with a random threshold is justified by conditioning on the -measurable value of : for a fixed , the Lebesgue integral equals . More formally, independence integrates the bounded Borel measurable function over its second coordinate. Thereforewhich verifies the martingale property for this filtration.
Since , the conditional expectation of the squared martingale difference isThe law of total expectation yields . In particular, for every .
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