Square-root stock supermartingale Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
For a positive stock satisfying , the Itô formula gives . Localization and the conditional Fatou lemma make this nonnegative local supermartingale a true supermartingale.
Strict inequality in Fatou lemma Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
On , the functions
converge pointwise to zero but satisfy . Hence the two sides of Fatou lemma can be zero and one.
A nonnegative local martingale is a supermartingale. If its integrable terminal limit has the same expectation as its initial value, conditional Fatou lemma gives , and equality of expectations makes this an equality. It is therefore a uniformly integrable martingale.