Solution

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Let . Its quadratic variation is . The Itô formula for gives
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The chosen process is continuous and adapted, hence progressively measurable. Its time integral is finite on compact intervals because Brownian paths are continuous. The resulting is the stochastic exponential of , and is a positive local martingale.

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