TOWARDS A GENERAL DOOB-MEYER DECOMPOSITION THEOREM
Abstract: Both the Doob-Meyer and Graversen-Rao decomposition theorems can be proved
following an approach based on predictable compensators of discretizations and weak-
technique, which was developed by K. M. Rao. It is shown that any decomposition obtained
by Rao’s method gives predictability of compensators without additional assumptions (like
submartingality in the original Doob-Meyer theorem or finite energy in the Graversen-Rao
theorem).
2000 AMS Mathematics Subject Classification: 60G07, 60G48, 60H05.
Key words and phrases: Doob-Meyer decomposition theorem, predictable compensator,
processes with finite energy, martingales.