Solution

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Write . Differentiating gives
Therefore the diffusion operator satisfies . Applying the Itô formula to cancels its drift:
So is a positive local martingale. On every finite interval , . The bounded local martingale criterion makes it a true martingale on that interval. Since is arbitrary,

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