Extending the definition of stochastic integral from simple processes

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I am reading stochastic integration from Brownian Motion And Stochastic Calculus by Karatzas and Shreve. In the course of extending the definition of the stochastic integral from simple processes to other measurable and adapted processes, they first prove the following lemma:

Let $X$ be a bounded, measurable, $\{\mathcal{F}_{t}\}$– adapted process. Then there exists a sequence of simple processes $\{X^{(m)}\}_{m=1}^{\infty}$ of simple processes such that
\begin{equation}
\tag1 \sup_{T >0} \lim_{m \to \infty} E\int_{0}^{T}|X^{(m)}_{t}-X_{t}|^2dt=0
\end{equation}

From this, they conclude that it is possible to extract a subsequence $\{X^{(m_{k})}\}$ such that the set
\begin{equation}
\{(t,\omega\} \in [0,\infty) \times\Omega; \lim_{k \to \infty}X^{(m_{k})}_{t}(\omega)=X_{t}(\omega)\}^{c}
\end{equation}

has product measure zero. My question is, how did they arrive at this conclusion? I understand if $(1)$ is satisifed, then for each $T >0$, $\lim_{m \to \infty} E\int_{0}^{T}|X^{(m)}_{t}-X_{t}|^2dt=0 $ and hence there is a subsequence converging to $X_{t}(\omega)$ for almost every $[0,T] \times \Omega$. But this subsequence need not be the same for every $T$ right? So how do we get a subsequence that converges almsot everywhere on $[0, \infty) \times \Omega$. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Best Answer

For every $n\in \Bbb N$ choose a subsequence $(m_k^n)_k$ in the following way.

For $n=1$ choose a subsequence $(m_k^1)_k$ such that $X_t^{(m_k^1)} (\omega) \to X_t (\omega)$ for almost every $(t,\omega ) \in [0,1] \times \Omega$.

Given the sequence $(m_k^n)_k$ we have that $(1)$ holds for $T=n+1$ and $(m_k^n)_k$. Thus, take $(m_k^{n+1})_k$ as a subsequence from $(m_k^n)_k$ such that $X_t^{(m_k^{n+1})} (\omega) \to X_t (\omega)$ for almost every $(t,\omega ) \in [0,n+1] \times \Omega$.

Now take as final sequence $m_k := m_k^k$, for which $$X_t^{(m_k)} (\omega) \to X_t (\omega)$$ holds for almost every $\cup_n [0,n]\times\Omega =[0,\infty) \times \Omega$.