Heuristics on subordinated Brownian motions and time-changed Levy processes

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Studying time-changed Levy processes, I ended up writing the following equation:

$$W\left(\int_0^t v(s) \, ds\right) = \int_0^t \sqrt{v(s)} \, d W(s)$$

where $v(s)$ can be either a deterministic function or a stochastic processes.

The problem is that my argument leading to that equation is completely heuristic and very much related to the paper I was reading.

If $v(t)$ is deterministic, what I wrote should be true at least in terms of distribution. Indeed, both quantities should be normally distributed with mean $0$ and variance $\int_0^t v(s) ds$.

Apart from this, I can't go further.

What do you think about that equation? Is it really true? If so, in which sense and why?

Does it really matter whether $v$ is deterministic or stochastic?

Thanks a lot for all your help!!