Complete markets have unique state-price densities

In a one-period complete market with a strictly positive numéraire, at most one positive state-price density prices every traded asset. Suppose $\rho ,{\rho }^{\prime }$ do so. For each event $A$, replicate the contingent claim $S_1^{(0)}{1}_A$. Linearity of the pricing equations givesBoth weighted densities are integrable because they price the numéraire. An integrable random variable whose integral over every event is zero vanishes almost surely: take the events where it is positive and negative. Therefore $(\rho -{\rho }^{\prime })S_1^{(0)}=0$, and strict positivity of the numéraire gives $\rho ={\rho }^{\prime }$. This argument avoids assuming that the unweighted densities themselves are integrable.