Solution

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Let be two continuous solutions on the same filtered probability space, driven by the same Brownian motion and with almost surely. Write and choose a common Lipschitz constant for . Introduce the stopping time . On the stopped difference is zero; before , both coefficients and the difference are bounded.
The Itô formula and the zero expectation of the stopped square-integrable Itô integral yield
The Gronwall inequality implies . Continuous solution paths are bounded on each compact time interval, so almost surely. Letting proves almost surely at each fixed time, and a countable dense set of times together with continuity gives indistinguishability of stochastic processes. Therefore the stochastic differential equation has pathwise uniqueness.

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