Solution

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Put and . Boundedness and path continuity of make by the dominated convergence theorem, so . The Itô isometry gives .
We must not assume independence between the integral and its Brownian denominator. Instead, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
Concavity, or Jensen inequality, bounds the first factor by . Since , the second factor is . This negative normal moment is finite: the density is bounded near zero, where , and has Gaussian decay at infinity. In fact . The powers of cancel, yielding the fractional-moment control of Brownian increment ratios
The ratio may be assigned any value on the null event .

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