Martingale with respect to a decreasing filtration I am trying to solve problem 2.16 from the book "Continuous Martingales and Brownian Motion" by Revuz and Yor. There are two things that confuse me from the exercise so hopefully someone can shed some light into the subject.
For the Standard Brownian Motion $B$, set $\mathcal G = \sigma\,(B_u, u \geq t)$. I have to prove that for every real $\lambda$, the process 
$$M_t = \exp\left(\frac{\lambda B_t}{t}-\frac{\lambda^2}{2t}\right), \,\,\,\, t > 0$$
is a martingale with respect to the decreasing family $\mathcal G_t$.
This confuses me, as normally these proofs involve proving that a stochastic process is a martingale with respect to a natural (increasing) filtration adapted to the process in question, so I wonder what could be the applications of working with such family. 
The exercise also includes the following hint: observe that $\left(B_s - \frac{s}{t}B_t\right)$ is independent of $\mathcal G_t$ for $s<t$ OR use time-inversion.
How can one use time-inversion to prove the above argument? Thanks everyone in advance.
 A: It is not difficult to see that the process
$$W_t :=  \begin{cases} t B_{1/t}, & t > 0, \\ 0, & t=0 \end{cases}$$
defines a Brownian motion and $$\mathcal{G}_t := \sigma(B_u; u \geq t) = \sigma\left(W_u; u \leq \frac{1}{t} \right) =: \mathcal{H}_{\tilde{t}}$$ for ${\tilde{t}} := 1/t$ is the canonical filtration of $(W_\tilde{t})_{\tilde{t} \geq 0}$. Moreover, we can write
$$\begin{align*} M_t &= \exp \left( \lambda \frac{B_t}{t} - \lambda^2 \frac{1}{2t} \right) \\ &= \exp \left( \lambda W_{1/t} - \lambda^2 \frac{1}{2t} \right) \\ &= \exp \left( \lambda W_{\tilde{t}} - \frac{\lambda^2}{2} {\tilde{t}} \right). \end{align*}$$
Now let $s \leq t$. Then $\tilde{s} \geq \tilde{t}$ and since
$$\left( \exp \left[ \lambda W_{\tilde{t}}- \frac{\lambda^2}{2} \tilde{t} \right], \mathcal{H}_{\tilde{t}} \right)_{\tilde{t} \geq 0}$$
is a martingale, we get
$$\begin{align*} \mathbb{E}(M_s \mid \mathcal{G}_t) &= \mathbb{E} \left( \exp \left[ \lambda W_{\tilde{s}} - \frac{\lambda^2}{2} \tilde{s} \right] \mid \mathcal{H}_{\tilde{t}} \right) \\ &= \exp \left[ \lambda W_{\tilde{t}} - \frac{\lambda^2}{2} \tilde{t} \right] \\ &= M_t. \end{align*}$$
This shows that $(M_t,\mathcal{G}_t)$ is a (backwards) martingale.
Backward martingales are often useful because they are closable and therefore nice martingale convergence theorem may be applied. For example one can prove the strong law of large numbers using backward martingales.
