For deterministic continuous functions on a finite interval, their stochastic exponentials are square-integrable martingales and satisfy . Thus has mean and stochastic-integral representation with the displayed integrand. Itô isometry proves uniqueness up to time-probability null sets among square-integrable predictable integrands. It does not give pointwise uniqueness, since changing a value at one deterministic time changes no integral.
Apply Itô's lemma to . Since , and , the drift terms cancel:
This is initially a local martingale. On every finite interval ,
so the stochastic integral is a true square-integrable martingale. Conditional expectation gives ; divide by the nonzero -measurable factor to obtain
Fix a finite horizon and use the completed natural Brownian filtration. Martingale representation theorem states that every can be written
where is predictable and is unique up to equality for almost every .
The Martingale representation theorem states that every square-integrable martingale in this filtration has a continuous version of the form
with the same integrability and uniqueness condition. The completed natural filtration has only null-set randomness at time zero, so is almost surely constant. The first statement gives the second by representing and taking conditional expectations; the second gives the first by taking .
There is also the local version: every local martingale in the Brownian filtration has a continuous version representable by a predictable, locally square-integrable integrand. The filtration restriction matters; an enlarged filtration with independent additional martingales need not have representation using alone.