For a stopping time ,The indicator is predictable, so a stopped integrable martingale is a martingale.
For a simple symmetric random walk, the infinite mean first passage of a simple symmetric random walk gives a finite almost sure first passage to . The stopped martingale is nonnegative and eventually zero almost surely. Nevertheless for every , so it has almost sure convergence but no convergence in L1. It is therefore not uniformly integrable. Before absorption the nearest-neighbour walk is at most zero, ensuring nonnegativity.
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