Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/iii/paper-202/3/c/solution

By the Reflection invariance of Brownian motion, is Brownian motion, and the first time reaches is the first time reaches . Part b therefore gives
Now is the exponential Brownian martingale. At , the identity gives , so . The nonnegative stopped martingale therefore loses no mass at infinity and is uniformly integrable. The optional sampling theorem at any stopping time gives

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