Doob's Martingale Convergence Theorems - Statement of The Theorems - Doob's Second Martingale Convergence Theorem

Doob's Second Martingale Convergence Theorem

It is important to note that the convergence in Doob's first martingale convergence theorem is pointwise, not uniform, and is unrelated to convergence in mean square, or indeed in any Lp space. In order to obtain convergence in L1 (i.e., convergence in mean), one requires uniform integrability of the random variables Nt. By Chebyshev's inequality, convergence in L1 implies convergence in probability and convergence in distribution.

The following are equivalent:

  • (Nt)t>0 is uniformly integrable, i.e.
  • there exists an integrable random variable NL1(Ω, P; R) such that NtN as t → +∞ both P-almost surely and in L1(Ω, P; R), i.e.

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