Set , , and . On the event , one has and the Brownian path remains in throughout the next time units after .
For Brownian motion started at , let be its first exit time from . The martingale , stopped at , gives . Monotone convergence first proves finite mean exit time, and dominated convergence for the bounded stopped position then gives
Thus Markov's inequality yields . Remaining in the closed interval for a fixed positive duration has the same probability as avoiding boundary exit: Brownian motion crosses immediately after first hitting an endpoint.
Condition on . The event is measurable there because is a stopping time, and future Brownian increments are independent of this sigma-algebra. The preceding bound is uniform in the current point inside the interval. Therefore
This is a good-lambda bound for Brownian stopping time and maximum.
Put and . Splitting according to whether , the good-lambda bound for Brownian stopping time and maximum gives
Integrate against the positive measure . The tail integral formula for expectation in Stieltjes form yields
By moderate growth, choose with . Then
Fix and choose small enough that . Absorb the last term and apply moderate growth once more to the fixed dilation . This proves
To avoid subtracting infinities, perform the argument first for , where Brownian maxima have all finite polynomial moments and moderate growth is at most polynomial, and then use monotone convergence. Applying the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem transfers this Brownian estimate to continuous local martingales, giving the lower-maximum side of the Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities.