The identity for the killed deterministic flow follows directly from the chain rule and the fundamental theorem of calculus, independently of the construction issue in part (b). For a continuously differentiable , put and . ThenHence, on such test functions,The time subscript on is necessary because the vector field may depend on time; it is suppressed on the right-hand side of the source's displayed operator identity. The killed deterministic flow transports an observable along the flow of a vector field and multiplies it by the no-jump survival probability.