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Reading through the book "Brownian Motion & Stochastic Processes" by Karatzas and Shreve, I found the following problem (problem 3.24, page 20):

Suppose that $ \{ X_t, \mathcal{F}_t \ | \ 0 \leq t < + \infty \}$ is a right-continuous sub-martingale and $ S \leq T $ are stopping times of $ \{ \mathcal{F}_t \} $. Show that:

(i) $\ \ \ \{ X_{T \ \wedge \ t} , \mathcal{F}_t \ | \ 0 \leq t < + \infty \} \ $ is again a sub-martingale

(ii) $ \ \ E[X_{T \ \wedge \ t} \ | \mathcal{F}_S] \geq X_{S \ \wedge \ t}$, $ \forall t $

Does anybody know how to prove that?

Thanks a lot for all your efforts! Regards, Si

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    @Zbigniew By coincidence, I'm doing this problem right now. I have a little question: to show the process is submartingale, we need to prove that \mathbb{E}[X_{T\wedge t}] < \infty for all $t\geq 0$. How do we prove this?2015-10-23

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