Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 34 6 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For , define the compensated small-jump Poisson integralThis is an ordinary compensated finite-intensity sum. Independent Poisson random variables give mean zero and the L2 construction of compensated Poisson integrals gives, for ,Thus is Cauchy in L2 space as , defining the first integral. It is not the difference of two separately convergent integrals. On a compact time interval , the Doob L2 maximal inequality bounds the squared supremum of the same difference by . Hence the truncated martingales are Cauchy in the expected squared supremum norm. A sufficiently rapidly decreasing sequence of cutoffs converges uniformly almost surely; its limit has càdlàg paths, so the construction also supplies a consistent process.
For large jumps, . There are only finitely many such atoms before any fixed time, almost surely, and each atom has a finite mark. The uncompensated large-jump integral is therefore a finite random sum, even though its absolute first moment is infinite. The two terms are well-defined for these different reasons.
There is also a literal signed-integral defect in the PDF: on either symmetric region is not . Its positive and negative parts both have infinite mass, so the ordinary signed Lebesgue integral is undefined. The correct divergence statement isA symmetric principal value may be zero, but is not an ordinary signed integral. Square-integrable compensation defines the small jumps; finite activity defines the large jumps.