Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2014 / iii / Paper 38 / 1 / b

The stopped processes are nonnegative martingales. Their expectations equal the finite deterministic value $X_0$. The Fatou lemma gives, for each fixed integer $t$,Thus every $X_t$ is integrable. Apply the preceding discrete-time criterion to conclude $X$ is a martingale, not merely a supermartingale. This is the nonnegative discrete-time local martingale is a martingale result; its conclusion does not extend to arbitrary continuous-time nonnegative local martingales.