Define the stochastic integral
It is adapted to , starts at zero and has continuous paths. Integrals over disjoint clock intervals are centered Gaussian and independent, and an increment from to is independent of . The Itô isometry gives its variance
These are precisely the defining properties of a -Brownian motion; in particular its future increments are independent of .
Deterministic substitution in the stochastic integral, first for step integrands and then by the Itô isometry, gives . Hence
The initial term is essential: a stochastic integral from time zero alone cannot equal , since . This is the unscaled part of the exponential Brownian time change to a stationary Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
Use the Itô product rule with the deterministic factor . Its quadratic covariation with is zero, giving
Multiplication by the integrating factor solves the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic differential equation:
The initial value is standard normal and independent of the future driving Brownian motion. Thus is a centered Gaussian process with variance one. For , its independent future noise gives . Its Gaussian finite-dimensional distributions consequently depend only on time differences, so it is a stationary process. This verifies the exponential Brownian time change to a stationary Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process directly.