Solution

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For times and real coefficients , the linear combination of coordinates is
The Gaussianity of deterministic Brownian stochastic integrals makes this a centered normal random variable. Indeed step-function approximations give linear combinations of independent normal increments, and the Itô isometry gives convergence in ; their characteristic functions converge to that of a normal variable with the limiting variance. Since every linear combination is normal, the coordinate vector is a Gaussian random vector. Appending the deterministic coordinate preserves that property, so is a centered Gaussian process on .
For , the covariance version of the Itô isometry gives
At the covariance is zero because , agreeing with the formula. Thus the Brownian bridge covariance kernel is
Its finite-dimensional distributions identify it as a Brownian bridge; continuity at the terminal endpoint is established next.

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