Solution

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Let and define the scale function of a one-dimensional diffusion
Since is continuous, , and
Thus is strictly increasing. The Itô formula for the additive-noise equation gives
The integrand is locally square-integrable: a continuous path has compact range on every finite interval, where is bounded. Hence
This is the scale transform for an additive-noise diffusion. Its range is the open interval , which need not be all of .

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