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Set . The Girsanov theorem uses the density
For these nonexplosive linear stochastic differential equations, the linear drift change of measure ensures that is a true martingale on each finite horizon. This matters: a stochastic exponential being a local martingale alone would not prove that its terminal expectation is one. Its strict positivity gives an equivalent risk-neutral measure , under which
The discounted asset is then a martingale. The Feynman-Kac formula, equivalently risk-neutral valuation of the replicable claim, gives
Here the payoff must meet the usual integrability and replication assumptions; the bounded digital payoff below does.

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