First stop the solution on leaving , at , and set . The stochastic integral representation, the Doob L2 maximal inequality and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality give, for ,
Here stopping ensures square integrability before the calculation, and explains the constant. The Gronwall inequality gives . For globally Lipschitz functions as coefficients, the global existence theorem for stochastic differential equations with Lipschitz coefficients supplies a nonexplosive solution. Letting increase and using Fatou's lemma proves the slightly stronger maximal second-moment bound under linear growth:
For coefficients that are only locally Lipschitz functions, let and replace the coefficients by and . These are globally Lipschitz functions, agree with the originals on , and obey the same linear growth condition for an SDE, since . The globally defined solutions agree until their common exits from by pathwise uniqueness. The uniform preceding estimate and Markov's inequality imply
Patch the solutions before their increasing exit times. Their limiting lifetime exceeds almost surely by this bound. Thus a pathwise unique strong solution exists throughout even for locally Lipschitz coefficients.