It is known that the Girsanov exponent \( {{\mathfrak{z}}_t} \), which is a solution of the Doléans-Dade equation \( {{\mathfrak{z}}_{{\, \mathfrak{t}}}}=1+\int\limits_0^t {{{\mathfrak{z}}_s}} \alpha (s)d{B_s} \) generated by a Brownian motion B t and a random process α(t) with \( \int\limits_0^t {{\alpha^2}(s)ds<\infty\,\,a.s} \)., is a martingale provided that the Beneš condition,
holds. In this paper, we show that \( \int\limits_0^t {\alpha (s)d{B_s}} \), can lie replaced by a purely discontinuous square integrable martingale M t with paths from the Skorokhod space \( {{\mathbb{D}}_{{\left[ {0,\infty } \right)}}} \) hailing jumps \( \alpha (s)\varDelta {M_t}>-1 \). The method of proof differs from the original Beneš proof. Bibliography: 13 titles.
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Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 396, 2011, pp. 144–154.
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Liptser, R. Beneš condition for a discontinuous exponential martingale. J Math Sci 188, 717–723 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-013-1162-7
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