Solution

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By the usual definition of a Lévy process, almost surely. The two martingale assumptions give
For a continuous Lévy process, the jump measure in the Lévy–Khintchine formula is zero, and the process has the form of a Brownian Gaussian component plus a deterministic drift. Thus its characteristic function is
The first moment makes , and the second moment makes . Consequently
Equivalently, continuity and the martingale identity identify the quadratic variation as , so the Lévy characterization of Brownian motion gives the same conclusion. A continuous nonzero drift is excluded by the mean-zero martingale assumption.

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