Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 26 2 3 Solution 2026-10-06
For the real-valued variables here, take a -measurable version of . Since the variables are bounded, the conditional expectation defining identity extends to the bounded -measurable multiplier , givingThe equality case for conditional second moments now givesA nonnegative random variable with zero expectation vanishes with probability one. Thus as an almost sure equality. The same proof works for square-integrable variables; boundedness is more than is needed.