Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 101 5 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
As in the intended independent-mark construction, take the entire sequence independent of the Poisson process, not merely independent of one fixed count. Then is a Compound Poisson process. For deterministic , its increment is independent of . To justify this carefully, first condition on . The past of uses only the counting history up to and marks among . The future count has independent rate- Poisson process increments, and future marks are fresh with the common law. Their joint conditional law is the same for every and every past history, so the increment is independent even of this larger marked history, hence of . Marks equal to zero do not cause a problem: may then reveal less than the full counting history.
By part (b), with Poisson parameter ,The proposed process is adapted to , nonnegative, andIn particular, no finite expectation of a mark is required. Also , andis independent of and has mean one. Therefore the exponential Laplace martingale of a compound Poisson process satisfiesThis proves every condition for a continuous-time martingale in the requested filtration. When , and the same conclusion reduces to the constant martingale .