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Let $U_1,\dots ,U_n$ be independent uniform random variables on $[0,1]$, let ${\theta }_i>0$, and set $S={\sum }_i{\theta }_i\in (0,1)$ and $X_t={\sum }_i{\theta }_i{1}_{\{U_i\le t\}}$. ThenIndeed, the complementary crossing is that of level one by the uniform-arrival residual mass martingale $M_t=(S-X_t)/(1-t)$, with $M_0=S$. Its jumps are downward, so its first crossing of one is continuous. An arrival coincides with a possible crossing time with probability zero: the possible times belong to the finite deterministic set obtained from subsets of the weights. Stop at that crossing or at $r<1$. The stopped values are in $[0,1]$, and as $r\uparrow 1$ they converge to the crossing indicator because all arrivals occur before one almost surely. The optional stopping theorem and dominated convergence theorem give crossing probability $S$. For $S=1$, the strict displayed inequality already fails at time zero.

Write the residual process asFor $s<t<1$, the filtration tells us whether each $U_i$ has arrived by time $s$, and its exact arrival time if it has. On $\{U_i>s\}$, its conditional law is uniform on $(s,1)$. Independence of the original $U_i$ means that the histories of the other arrivals do not alter this law. HenceThis conditional identity can also be checked against products of bounded functions of the censored arrival times and extended to ${\mathcal{F}}_s$ by the Monotone class theorem. Summing the identity gives $\mathbb{E}[M_t\mid {\mathcal{F}}_s]=M_s$.

Each $M_t$ is adapted and integrable, withIts paths are smooth between the finitely many arrival times and have downward jumps of size ${\theta }_i/(1-U_i)$ at arrivals before time one. The indicators use $U_i>t$, so the value at a jump is the post-jump value: paths are right continuous with finite left limits on $[0,1)$. Thus $M$ is a càdlàg martingale, specifically the uniform-arrival residual mass martingale.