Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 1 30K c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Define and recursively setThe increment is -measurable, so is -measurable by induction; hence is predictable. Conditional expectation preserves integrability, so andare integrable and adapted. Their increments satisfyso is a martingale.
For uniqueness, suppose are two such decompositions. Thenis both a martingale and predictable, with . Since is -measurable,Induction gives , and therefore and . This proves the Doob decomposition of an adapted integrable process.