For and potential , the Feynman-Kac formula with initial value one gives . The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck likelihood relative to Wiener measure cancels the quadratic time integral, leaving a Gaussian endpoint integral. Completing the square gives the displayed answer for . It is finite for all nonnegative times when ; when the path expectation diverges at and beyond .
If is a P-Brownian motion, its starting value is deterministic, so Q5(a) applies. The correction has finite variation and does not alter quadratic variation; Q1(b) gives under Q. The Lévy characterization of Brownian motion therefore identifies as a Q-Brownian motion with the same starting value.
For the likelihood, use Wiener measure as the reference measure and write its coordinate as . Set
and let be its stochastic exponential. We must prove it is a true martingale; unverified large-horizon Novikov estimates would not suffice.
Fix and stop at , with . The bounded integrand satisfies the Novikov condition, so defines a probability on . By the result just established,
is Brownian under on this horizon. Therefore . The Gronwall inequality gives
The Doob L2 maximal inequality then bounds its squared expectation by , uniformly in . In particular . On the stopped and unstopped densities agree, so
Continuous Brownian paths are bounded on , and the indicators increase to one. The monotone convergence theorem proves . Since a nonnegative local martingale is a supermartingale, constant expectation at every time makes a true martingale.
Under its tilted measure, is Brownian and . The explicit linear solution gives uniqueness of this law, identifying it with . Consequently the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck likelihood relative to Wiener measure is
This is a finite-horizon density statement; it does not assert absolute continuity of the full infinite-horizon path laws.