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Reverse martingale convergence
Statement
Assume AC. If is a reverse martingale, then almost surely and in .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The hypotheses, objects, and conventions in the Statement.
Uniform integrability of conditional expectations of one variable makes uniformly integrable.
Doob upcrossing inequality bounds crossings of each finite reversed martingale segment.
Sequential suprema, infima, limsup, liminf, and pointwise limits of measurable functions are measurable gives measurability of the pointwise limit, and Conditional expectation as an ae class identifies it by event integrals.
The Axiom of Choice has exactly the inherited conditional-expectation/version use in F1, F2, F3, F4, F5.
Proof
Fix . Read in that order with filtration ; F1 makes this a finite ordinary martingale. An upcrossing of becomes a downcrossing of the reversed list, hence an upcrossing of its negative through . F3 bounds its expectation by endpoint positive parts, uniformly in , because F2 gives uniform bounds. The same argument directly bounds downcrossings.
For every rational , the total upcrossing and downcrossing counts are finite almost surely. Intersecting these countably many full-measure events, the usual rational-interval argument gives a finite or extended-real limit. Uniform integrability bounds the positive and negative tails uniformly, so Fatou excludes both infinite values. Denote the finite almost-sure limit by .
The almost-sure convergence from step 2.1 gives convergence in probability by F4. Using the uniformly integrable family from F2, F4 then upgrades it to in .
Fix . For all , is -measurable and , so F5 makes measurable for . This holds for every , hence is -measurable. If , then for every and F1 gives The limit passes through the left integral, so F5 identifies . AC is used exactly as recorded in F6.
Depends on
- Reverse filtration and reverse martingale
- Doob upcrossing inequality
- Uniform integrability of conditional expectations of one variable
- Uniform integrability plus convergence in probability implies $L^1$ convergence
- Almost-sure convergence implies convergence in probability
- Sequential suprema, infima, limsup, liminf, and pointwise limits of measurable functions are measurable
- Conditional expectation as an ae class
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- van der Vaart, Martingales, Diffusions and Financial Mathematics, Theorem 2.30 and Exercise 2.31, pp. 17–18 (standard reference, not scraped)