Solution

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The increasing quadratic variation has a limit in . Since has a finite limit, the exponentials have limits too, with value zero when the bracket is infinite. Expanding exponents proves
because the coefficient of on the right is
and the bracket coefficient is . Taking limits preserves the identity, including the zero case.
Let , , and . The Holder inequality first yields
When is finite, apply the Jensen inequality to the concave function :
Since , rearrangement gives the terminal scaling inequality for stochastic exponentials
Here . If the last exponential moment is infinite, the bound has no positive content; the finite-moment form is the one used below.

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