Solution

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Set . The positive density
has mean one, and the Girsanov theorem makes a Brownian motion under the equivalent measure . Hence
The Black-Scholes equation makes a local martingale. Bounded on the finite horizon makes it a true martingale, so its terminal condition gives the risk-neutral valuation
The geometric Brownian motion solution under is
The Brownian increment is independent of and equals in distribution, where has the standard normal distribution. Therefore
The expectation on the right is only an integral against the standard normal law; the physical drift has disappeared.

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