The Conditional Fatou lemma gives for the dyadic density martingale. Integration first on dyadic sets, then extension by the Monotone class theorem, makes a nonnegative measure. Its finite-level density is , which tends to zero almost everywhere for Lebesgue measure. The density level sets separate a singular measure argument shows that this zero-limit set has -measure zero. Thus and are mutually singular measures, obtaining the decomposition without assuming it to identify the martingale limit.
Use the filtered probability space , with its half-open dyadic intervals. Complete the initial definition by putting . This is the same cell-average formula at level zero, where the only cell is .
The function is -measurable and nonnegative. Its expectation is
Every parent cell is the disjoint union of its two half-open child cells. On , the conditional expectation of is its cell average:
Thus , including at . This proves that is a nonnegative martingale, specifically the dyadic density martingale. The half-open endpoints are essential to the disjoint partition for an arbitrary measure, which may have atoms.