Solution

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Fix a deterministic . By the Strong Markov property at the finite Brownian first-passage time , the process is a standard Brownian motion started at zero. Such a process takes positive values arbitrarily soon almost surely: for every , the Brownian reflection principle makes its maximum on have the distribution of , so the probability that the maximum is zero is zero. Intersecting these events for gives an infimum of positive-crossing times equal to zero. Therefore
The infimum defining the strict crossing time need not itself be a time when ; continuity gives . The quantifier here is fixed-level almost sure equality, not indistinguishability of stochastic processes as the level varies.

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