Solution

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For and , the definition of the Radon-Nikodym derivative gives
The density is nonnegative and integrable; with the probability normalization used here its expectation is one. Hence
so is a martingale. When , the Itô formula under Wiener measure gives
The first term is a continuous local martingale, by localization on compact space-time sets. Since is a martingale, uniqueness of the continuous semimartingale decomposition makes identically. The integrand is continuous in time along every continuous path, so for every , outside one common null event.
For each fixed , has a Gaussian distribution with strictly positive density everywhere on . Since is continuous, almost surely implies for every real . Therefore
If the stated smoothness includes time zero, continuity extends the equation there. This is the backward heat equation. The full-support argument is needed to pass from an identity along Brownian paths to an equation at every spatial point.

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