Use one -dimensional Brownian motion to couple the diffusion processes
The global existence theorem for stochastic differential equations with Lipschitz coefficients supplies a unique nonexplosive strong stochastic solution. Let be the deterministic drift trajectory. Subtraction and the Gronwall inequality give, on every finite horizon ,
This also follows directly from the integral equations with continuous forcing, so the coupling can be chosen simultaneously for all .
For completeness derive the needed Feynman-Kac formula with its potential sign. For fixed , apply the Itô formula and the Itô product rule to
Its drift is the exponential factor times , which vanishes by the partial differential equation. It is a local martingale. Boundedness of on the finite time slab and boundedness of make bounded there, so it is a true martingale. Its endpoint expectations give
The deterministic trajectory on is compact. Uniform pathwise convergence puts all sufficiently small-noise paths in a fixed compact neighbourhood of that trajectory. Continuity of therefore implies ; global uniform continuity of is not required. Continuity of gives convergence of the terminal factor. Finally,
The dominated convergence theorem proves the zero-noise limit with a bounded potential:
At this is the given initial condition. All boundedness arguments concern a fixed finite horizon; no uniform bound over infinite time is needed.