Solution

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The uniformly integrable martingale convergence theorem states that a uniformly integrable martingale has an integrable terminal random variable such that almost surely and in the L1 norm, and
The last identity follows by passing to the limit of a sequence in for and , using convergence in L1.
Part (b)(iii) verifies uniform integrability for , so
Moreover almost surely. In this particular problem the common bound also yields convergence in Lp for every finite , including convergence in L2: the dominated convergence theorem applies to . General uniform integrability alone does not assert these higher-power conclusions.

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