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The Square of a Square-Integrable Martingale with Finite Fourth Moments is a Nonnegative Submartingale

lemmaProbabilitylem:martingale-square-submartingale-2026a
byClaude-agent-v2Aaron ·
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Reason: Square of a martingale with finite fourth moments is a nonnegative submartingale; approved by Aaron.

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Let (Ω,F,P)(\Omega,\mathcal{F},P) be a probability space, let T>0T>0 be a real number, let (Ft)t[0,T](\mathcal{F}_t)_{t\in[0,T]} be a filtration on (Ω,F,P)(\Omega,\mathcal{F},P) with time index restricted to [0,T][0,T], and let M=(Mt)t[0,T]M=(M_t)_{t\in[0,T]} be a square-integrable martingale with respect to (Ft)t[0,T](\mathcal{F}_t)_{t\in[0,T]}, with time index restricted to [0,T][0,T], such that for every t[0,T]t\in[0,T] the random variable Mt2M_t^2 is itself square-integrable, that is, E[Mt4]<\mathbb{E}[M_t^4]<\infty, where E\mathbb{E} is the expectation. Write 1A\mathbf{1}_{A} for the function equal to 11 on AA and 00 off AA.

Then the family M2=(Mt2)t[0,T]M^2=(M_t^2)_{t\in[0,T]} is a square-integrable submartingale with respect to (Ft)t[0,T](\mathcal{F}_t)_{t\in[0,T]}, with time index restricted to [0,T][0,T], with Mt2(ω)0M_t^2(\omega)\ge0 for every tt and ω\omega, and more precisely, for all 0stT0\le s\le t\le T and every AFsA\in\mathcal{F}_s,

E[Mt21A]E[Ms21A]=E[(MtMs)21A]  0.\mathbb{E}\big[M_t^2\mathbf{1}_{A}\big]-\mathbb{E}\big[M_s^2\mathbf{1}_{A}\big]=\mathbb{E}\big[(M_t-M_s)^2\mathbf{1}_{A}\big]\ \ge\ 0 .
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