Brownian change of measure by a positive space-time harmonic function

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If is smooth and is the unit-mean density martingale of a locally absolutely continuous probability measure relative to Wiener measure, then . The Itô formula gives when . The true-martingale hypothesis is already supplied by the density process. On each finite horizon the Girsanov theorem makes Brownian under the new measure. Positivity provides local equivalence; global infinite-horizon equivalence and the Novikov condition are not additional requirements.

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