Solution

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Monotonicity of gives, for each ,
Hence ; the additional term is finite by continuity at one. Also as , since a positive limiting lower bound would make the integral diverge.
By Brownian scaling, has law . Apply the small-value bound for the Brownian running maximum to obtain
Summing yields the requested finite probability sum. The argument needs no independence of these nested-time events.

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