Abstract

The purpose of this note is to investigate the effect of dilations on martingales and to give conditions under which a dilated martingale will retain the martingale property. The technique of dilating the joint distribution of a sequence of random variables has applications in optimal stopping theory and the study of “prophet inequalities” where martingales play a significant role.

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