Use positive initial asset prices and the usual augmentation of the natural Brownian filtration. Define the market price of risk
Continuity and strict positivity of imply on every finite horizon almost surely, because each path has a positive minimum of there. Hence the strictly positive stochastic exponential
is defined and has and . The Itô product rule gives
so it is a local martingale deflator.
For uniqueness, let be any normalized strictly positive local martingale deflator. The Brownian martingale representation theorem makes a continuous local martingale with a Brownian motion integral representation. Dividing by therefore gives . The vanishing drift of requires , so . This scalar linear stochastic differential equation has exactly the exponential solution above, proving the normalized local martingale deflator is unique.
The assumptions do not make deterministically bounded: need not be bounded away from zero uniformly over outcomes. Thus a true martingale density or Novikov condition is not inferred here; the required conclusion is local.