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A predictable rectangle has the displayed form for $0\le s<t$. Its indicator is a left-continuous adapted process, and these rectangles generate the predictable sigma-algebra on positive times. If the time-zero slice is included, also use $B\times \{0\}$ with $B\in {\mathcal{F}}_0$.

The predictable sigma-algebra on $\Omega \times [0,\infty )$ is generated by $A\times \{0\}$ for $A\in {\mathcal{F}}_0$ and by $A\times (s,t]$ for $A\in {\mathcal{F}}_s$. Equivalently, it is the smallest sigma-algebra making every left-continuous adapted process measurable.

A process $H$ is progressively measurable when, for every $T$, its restriction to $[0,T]\times \Omega$ is measurable for $\mathcal{B}([0,T])\otimes {\mathcal{F}}_T$. Continuous adapted processes are progressively measurable, and a Borel function of such a process remains so. A progressively measurable square-integrable Brownian integrand has an equivalent predictable integrand for the Itô integral, up to equality for $dtd\mathbb{P}$.

For a bounded continuous adapted process $H$ and a Brownian motion $B$, ${\int }_t^{t+h}{H}_{s}d{B}_s/(B_{t+h}-B_t)$ converges in probability to $H_t$ as $h\downarrow 0$. The Itô isometry makes the error numerator small relative to $\sqrt{h}$; the normal distribution of the denominator controls its chance of being too close to zero.

For an adapted process with pathwise right continuity, fix $T$ and approximate its time argument by the next endpoint of a deterministic partition of $[0,T]$. Every approximation is jointly measurable for the terminal product sigma-algebra because all sampled values are ${\mathcal{F}}_T$-measurable. Right continuity makes them converge pointwise, proving progressive measurability. Sampling from the right need not preserve adaptedness at intermediate times, but that is not required in this proof.

For finite nonnegative adapted processes $Y_j$, set ${\tau }_a=\inf \{n:{\sum }_{j\le n}{Y}_j>a\}$ and $U_n={\sum }_{j<n}{Y}_j$. Stopping this one-step-lagged sum gives $A_n=a-U_{n\wedge {\tau }_a}\in [0,a]$, with $A_{n+1}-A_n=-Y_n{1}_{\{{\tau }_a>n\}}$. The latter is nonpositive and measurable at time $n$, so $A$ is a nonnegative supermartingale. The overshooting increment is excluded, which is essential to nonnegativity.

The stopped stochastic process follows $X$ until the stopping time $\tau$ and thereafter keeps the value $X_{\tau }$ when $\tau$ is finite. For a pathwise right-continuous adapted process, the stopped process is adapted, by progressive measurability and measurable evaluation at $t\wedge \tau$. When $X$ is a martingale, further stopping and integrability conditions determine whether its stopped process is a martingale.