Solution

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Apply the multidimensional Itô formula to . The stated PDE cancels its drift to , leaving
Consequently and are local martingales under the physical measure . Thus itself is an equivalent local martingale measure for the augmented market relative to the bank account. The continuous-time fundamental theorem of asset pricing says that existence of such a measure for locally bounded prices implies no free lunch with vanishing risk, and hence no arbitrage. The terminal condition also gives as required.

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