Doob-meyer decomposition for set-indexed submartingales

Set-indexed martingales and submartingales are defined and studied. The admissible function of a submartingale is defined and some class (D) conditions are given which allow the extension of the function to a -additive measure on the predictable -algebra. Then, we prove a Doob-Meyer decomposition: A set-indexed submartingale can be decomposed into the sum of a weak martingale and an increasing process. A hypothesis of predictability ensures the uniqueness of this decomposition. An explicit construction of the increasing process associated with a submartingale is given. Finally, some remarks, about quasimartingales are discussed.Research supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Dept. of Math. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5.The third author wishes to thank Professor Ivanoff and Dr. Dozzi for their kind hospitality. Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.