Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/iii/paper-201/5/c/solution

Let . Reflect at this stopping time, using the Brownian reflection principle from (a). Path continuity gives , and on this event the reflected endpoint is . Consequently
Since , an endpoint forces the reflected path to have hit by time . Reflection preserves the first hit of , so the condition is redundant on the right. As has the same probability distribution as , the joint distribution of Brownian motion and its running maximum satisfies
This argument includes ; at positive the boundary endpoint has zero probability under the normal distribution. At both sides vanish because .

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