Thin-thick approach to martingale representations on progressively enlarged filtrations

Abstract: We study the predictable representation property in the progressive enlargement F^\tau of a reference filtration F by a random time \tau. Our approach is based on the decomposition of any random time into two parts, one overlapping F-stopping times (thin part) and the other one that avoids F-stopping times (thick part). We assume that the F-thin part of \tau is nontrivial and prove a martingale representation theorem on F^\tau. We thus extend previous results dealing with F-avoiding random times. We collect some examples of application to the enlargement of the natural filtration of a L\'evy process.