 Utility duality with martingale deflators (source code)

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= Utility duality with martingale deflators

The concave conjugate $\widehat u(y)=\sup_{x>0}\{u(x)-xy\}$ gives the weak-duality bound $\mathbb Eu(X)\leq\mathbb E\widehat u(Y)+X_0Y_0$. Equality holds when $u'(X)=Y$ and the payoff exhausts the deflated budget.

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