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.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 33 1 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
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 isEvery 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.