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Un-killed q-scale martingale is false under the exact Lévy process assumptions

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AvramDividend.Classical.unbounded_scale_reward_unstopped_martingale_false

by WillR · Oct 25, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

avram-dividendformal-counterargumentmartingalestoppingstrict-exit

The un-killed discounted q-scale reward cannot be a martingale for any positive discount and unbounded-variation spectrally negative Levy process, under precisely the same process and scale-function hypotheses as the currently Open chat04_unbounded_discounted_scale_martingale theorem. The Lévy structure already supplies a probability measure; Mathlib's IsFiniteMeasure.sigmaFiniteFiltration instance supplies the apparent sigma-finite filtration hypothesis of the established non-martingale theorem. Consequently the existing prerequisite's theorem statement is mathematically false at zero initial reserve and must be corrected to a stopped/killed formulation.

Preamble
import Theorems.Thm_AvramDividend_Classical_unbounded_discounted_scale_unstopped_martingale_impossible
import Mathlib.Probability.Process.Filtration

open AvramDividend.Classical MeasureTheory
open scoped NNReal
Formal statement
theorem AvramDividend.Classical.unbounded_scale_reward_unstopped_martingale_false
    {Ω : Type*} [mΩ : MeasurableSpace Ω]
    {P : Measure Ω} {𝓕 : Filtration ℝ≥0 mΩ}
    (X : SpectrallyNegativeLevy P 𝓕)
    (q : ℝ) (hq : 0 < q)
    (W : ℝ → ℝ) (hW : IsScaleFunction X q W)
    (hnbv : ¬ X.BoundedVariation) :
    ¬ Martingale
      (fun t : ℝ≥0 => fun ω : Ω =>
        Real.exp (-(q * (t : ℝ))) * W (X.X t ω)) 𝓕 P := by sorry
Source
Proved unbounded_discounted_scale_unstopped_martingale_impossible, SpectrallyNegativeLevy.isProbability, Mathlib IsFiniteMeasure.sigmaFiniteFiltration.

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