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Feb 15, 2021 at 8:18 comment added Stephan Sturm You might also try to look up “suicide strategy” in the financial math literature. It is intimately tied to this problem as well as the classic (D. Bernoulli in the 18th century) St. Petersburg paradox.
Feb 15, 2021 at 8:16 vote accept Kolodez
Feb 15, 2021 at 8:14 comment added Stephan Sturm Consider a time change $u = Log(T-t)$. Then this is equivalent to that Brownian motion hits 1 in finite time.
Feb 15, 2021 at 7:59 comment added Kolodez Thanks. Intuitively, I see why $\mathbb P[\tau < T] = 1$. But is there a way to briefly argue for this mathematically?
Feb 15, 2021 at 7:53 history answered Stephan Sturm CC BY-SA 4.0