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Brownian change of measure by a positive space-time harmonic function (dXt​=dBtQ​+∂x​logh(Xt​,t)dt)

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If h>0 is smooth and Zt​=h(Xt​,t) is the unit-mean density martingale of a locally absolutely continuous probability measure relative to Wiener measure, then ht​+21​hxx​=0. The Itô formula gives Z=E(∫(hx​/h)(Xs​,s)dXs​) when Z0​=1. The true-martingale hypothesis is already supplied by the density process. On each finite horizon the Girsanov theorem makes X−∫(hx​/h)(Xs​,s)ds Brownian under the new measure. Positivity provides local equivalence; global infinite-horizon equivalence and the Novikov condition are not additional requirements.

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