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With the displacement convention for a Lévy kernel of a Markov jump process, suppose its total rate is bounded, its first moment is zero and its second moment $v$ is bounded by $V$. The bounded rate prevents explosion. The compensated displacement integral is a square-integrable martingale with $\mathbb{E}{X}_t^2\le Vt$. The displayed process is the sum of $2\int X_{s-}d{X}_s$ and the compensated sum of squared jumps. The first term is square integrable since $4\mathbb{E}{\int }_0^t{X}_{s-}^{2}v(X_{s-})ds\le 2V^2{t}^2$; the second is integrable because its expected total jump-square sum is at most $Vt$. Consequently the square compensation is a true martingale, without a fourth-moment assumption.

Work with the filtration relative to which the given Brownian motion or Markov jump process has its stated properties. All martingale assertions below concern every finite time interval; no infinite-horizon uniform integrability is claimed.

First put $C={\sup }_x|\sigma (x)|$. The solution has the representation $X_t={\int }_0^t\sigma (X_s)d{B}_s$, and the Itô isometry givesThus $X$ is a square-integrable martingale, not just a local martingale. Applying the Itô formula to its square cancels the finite-variation term and givesThe expected squared integrand integral is bounded byTherefore both $X$ and $Z$ are true square-integrable martingales. This is the bounded diffusion coefficient gives square martingales criterion. Only bounded measurability of the coefficient and existence of the stipulated solution have been used.

For the jump process, the Lévy kernel of a Markov jump process uses displacements: a mark $y$ sends the state $x$ to $x+y$. Let $\Lambda ={\sup }_x\lambda (x)$ and $V={\sup }_{x}v(x)$. The bounded total rate prevents explosion; the number of jumps on a finite interval is dominated by a rate-$\Lambda$ Poisson process. Let $N(ds,dy)$ record the jump displacements. Its predictable compensator of a jump measure isThe Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives $\int |y|K(x,dy)\le \sqrt{\lambda (x)v(x)}$, so the zero first moment is absolutely meaningful. Since that moment vanishes,The compensated integral is a square-integrable martingale: its isometry follows first for bounded marks from conditional compensation and then by truncation in the squared-integrand norm.

The jump version of the square Itô formula is $X_t^2=2{\int }_0^t{X}_{s-}d{X}_s+{\sum }_{s\le t}(\Delta X_s{)}^2$. HenceThe first term is square integrable becauseThe second is an integrable martingale: the expected absolute uncompensated jump-square sum is at most $Vt$, and the compensator identity, multiplied by any bounded event known at an earlier time, makes its increments conditionally centered. Values $X_s$ and $X_{s-}$ agree for Lebesgue-almost every time, so the displayed compensation is exactly the one defining $Z$. Thus $X$ and $Z$ are true martingales in the jump case as well. A fourth moment of the jumps is unnecessary; in particular we have not asserted that this $Z$ must be square integrable. This is centered finite-rate jump kernel gives square martingales.

At a positive state $x$, the future is constant. At zero, the residual holding time is independent rate-one exponential and the next state is an independent uniform mark. Thus the conditional future given the natural filtration depends only on the present state: $X$ is a Markov jump process. For any bounded Borel $g$, its transition semigroup isThe Lévy kernel of a Markov jump process, written in destination-state convention, isIn displacement convention it has the same expression $K(x,dz)=1_{\{x=0\}}{1}_{(0,1)}(z)dz$, since its only nonzero jump rate is from zero. The Markov jump-process generator is $Lg(x)=1_{\{x=0\}}({\int }_0^{1}g(y)dy-g(0))$.

We state the generator martingale theorem used here: for a nonexplosive Markov jump process and a bounded $g$ with bounded $Lg$, the process $g(X_t)-g(X_0)-{\int }_0^{t}Lg(X_{s-})ds$ is a true martingale. In this one-jump model it also follows directly from part (a), first for mark indicators and then by bounded-function approximation.

Take $g_{\theta }(x)=e^{\theta x}$, and putHere $L{g}_{\theta }(x)/g_{\theta }(x)=r_{\theta }{1}_{\{x=0\}}$. Therefore choose the previsible processIt is continuous adapted and thus predictable. To verify the exponential, write $d{g}_{\theta }(X_t)=d{N}_t+L{g}_{\theta }(X_{t-})dt$ with the generator martingale $N$. The semimartingale integration by parts formula, using the continuous finite-variation factor $e^{-Y_t}$, givesThus $Z_t=e^{\theta X_t-Y_t}$ is a local martingale. On each fixed horizon it is bounded by $e^{|\theta |+|r_{\theta }|t}$, so it is a true martingale with $Z_0=1$. This is the exponential martingale from a jump generator; for $\theta =0$ it reduces to the constant process one.

At the unscaled state $(x,y)$, write the Lévy kernel of a Markov jump process on jump displacements $z$ asThe destination-kernel convention translates each Dirac mass by $(x,y)$. The total holding rate is the mass of this kernel. At either zero population the corresponding death rates vanish, so no negative states are reached. Births in the total population are bounded by a Yule process with per-individual rate $\lambda$, while deaths only decrease it; this also gives nonexplosion.

Put $Z^N=(X/N,Y/N)$. This is a density-dependent Markov jump process, with jumps of size $1/N$ and rates of order $N$. Its drift gives the deterministic approximationUniqueness preserves the diagonal $x=y=z$. For positive $\lambda ,\mu$, the resulting logistic differential equation has solutionIf $\lambda <\mu$, it decreases from one to $\lambda /\mu$; if $\lambda >\mu$, it increases to that same equilibrium; equality gives the constant solution one. In particular positive rates do not give extinction on this exactly symmetric deterministic trajectory. Transverse perturbations behave differently: subtracting the equations gives $(x-y{)}^{\prime }=\lambda (x-y)$, so the positive symmetric equilibrium has an unstable difference direction. The symmetric competition model distinguishes diagonal logistic relaxation from this symmetry-breaking instability.

For an explicit error estimate, use the martingale decomposition of a density-dependent jump process:Fix $t_0,\delta >0$ and choose $R>{\sup }_{t\le t_0}z(t)+\delta$. Stop at the first exit ${\sigma }_R$ from the box $[0,R{]}^2$. On that box, $F$ has Lipschitz constant $L_R=\lambda +2\mu R$ in the supremum norm. Each coordinate of $M^N$ has jumps bounded by $1/N$ and predictable quadratic variation at mostIndeed a coordinate's positive and negative jump rates are $N\lambda x$ and $N\mu xy$, and the squared jump size is $1/N^2$. Independent jump clocks give zero cross-bracket.

The Bernstein bound for bounded-jump martingales gives, for each coordinate,The Gronwall inequality applied up to ${\sigma }_R$ givesAn exit from the box already entails an error larger than $\delta$, by the choice of $R$, so the stopped estimate controls the event of any error on the full interval. Take $\eta =\delta e^{-L_R{t}_0}$ and use the union bound on the two coordinates:For fixed time horizon and tolerance this is exponentially small in $N$, proving a fluid limit. The transverse instability explains why this finite-horizon estimate should not be extrapolated to arbitrarily long times without changing its constants.