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A proof of the Dalang-Morton-Willinger theorem

Probability 2008-04-22 v1

Abstract

We give a new proof of the Dalang-Morton-Willinger theorem, relating the no-arbitrage condition in stochastic securities market models to the existence of an equivalent martingale measure with bounded density for a dd-dimensional stochastic sequence (Sn)n=0N(S_n)_{n=0}^N of stock prices. Roughly speaking, the proof is reduced to the assertion that under the no-arbitrage condition for N=1 and SL1S\in L^1 there exists a strictly positive linear fucntional on L1L^1, which is bounded from above on a special subset of the subspace KL1K\subset L^1 of investor's gains.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3308,
  title  = {A proof of the Dalang-Morton-Willinger theorem},
  author = {Dmitry B. Rokhlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3308},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages

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