 Martingale increments obstruct finite convergence (source code)

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= Martingale increments obstruct finite convergence

If a real sequence converges finitely, its successive increments tend to zero. A <martingale> whose increments stay bounded away from zero on every sample path cannot have a finite almost-sure limit, regardless of its zero conditional mean increments.

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