Solution

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Use the auxiliary diffusion , started at . Under sufficient regularity and integrability for the Feynman-Kac formula,
To verify the signs, apply Itô's formula to . Its drift is . Adding the accumulated source integral makes a martingale; taking expectations through proves the formula.
Here the auxiliary drift is the printed , rather than automatically : this part is a general terminal-value PDE, whose diffusion must match its generator.

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