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Use the same affine drift cancellation with terminal conditions $a(0)=0$, $b(0)=1$. It gives $a(\tau )=0$, $b(\tau )=e^{-\tau }$, soThe process is bounded, which justifies the conditional expectation identity. The Bayes formula for conditional expectation for the forward measure now givesThe denominator is positive; the ratio lies in $[0,1]$ and equals $r_T$ at maturity. This is the forward-measure terminal rate in a linear bond model.