How to use the markovian property and use the uniqueness of SDEs

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Let $T>0$ be fixed. Consider the stochastic differential equation $$ (8.21) \quad \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \displaystyle{{\rm d}X(t)=2(X(t) \vee 0)^{1/2}{\rm d}B(t)+\left(3-\frac{2X(t)}{T-t}\right){\rm d}t} \\ X(0)=0. \end{array} \right. $$ Furthermore, $X(t)$ defines a time-dependent Markov process. To be precise, for $0 \leq s<T$ and $x \in [0,\infty)$, let $W_{s,x}$, be the totality of all continuous paths $w:[s,T) \ni t \mapsto w(t) \in [0,\infty)$ such that $w(s)=x$ and $w(t)>0$ for all $t \in (s,T)$, ${\mathscr B}(W_{s,x})$ be the $\sigma$-field on $W_{s,x}$ generated by Borel cylinder sets and ${\mathscr B}_{t}(W_{s,x})$, $s<t<T$, be the sub $\sigma$-field generated by Borel cylinder sets depending only on the interval $[s,t]$. Let $\hat{P}_{0,0}$ be the probability law on $(W_{0,0},{\mathscr B}(W_{0,0}))$ of the solution $X(t)$ of (8.21) and more generally $\hat{P}_{s,x}$, be the probability law on $(W_{s,x},{\mathscr B}(W_{s,x}))$ of the unique solution $\{X(t)\}_{t \in [s,T)}$ of $$ (8.23) \quad \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \displaystyle{{\rm d}X(t)=2(X(t) \vee 0)^{1/2}{\rm d}B(t)+\left(3-\frac{2X(t)}{T-t}\right){\rm d}t} \\ X(s)=x. \end{array} \right. $$ The Markovian property of $\hat{P}_{0,0}$ is now formulated as follows; for $0<s<t$ and $f \in B([0,\infty))$ (i.e., $B([0,\infty))$ is the totality of all bounded Borel measurable functions on $[0,\infty)$.), $$ (8.24) \quad \hat{{\mathbb E}}_{0,0}[f(w(t))|{\mathscr B}_{s}(W_{0,0})]=\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{s,w(s)}[f(w'(t))] \quad \text{a.a.} \, w(\hat{P}_{0,0}). $$ Moregenerally, for $0 \leq u<s<t$, $x \in [0,\infty)$ and $f \in B([0,\infty))$, $$ (8.25) \quad \hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,x}[f(w(t))|{\mathscr B}_{s}(W_{u,x})]=\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{s,w(s)}[f(w'(t))] \quad \text{a.a.} \, w(\hat{P}_{u,x}). $$

This is described on page 240 of the following book: N. Ikeda and S. Watanabe. Stochastic differential equations and diffusion processes, 2nd edn. North-Holland, Amsterdam, (1981).

Question: I want to know the proof of (8.25).

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Let $A \in {\mathscr B}_{s}(W_{u,x})$. By the markovian property of $\hat{P}_{u,x}$, we obtain $$ (1) \quad \hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,x}[f(w(t)){\bf 1}_{A}(w)] =\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,x}[\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,w(s)}[f(w'(t-s))]{\bf 1}_{A}(w)]. $$ On the other hand, let $w \in W_{u,x}$ and $f \in {\mathscr D}(A)$. By the ito's formula, a stochastic process $$ \left(f(w'(t-s))-f(w(s))-\int_{u}^{t-s}(Af)(w'(v)){\rm d}v\right)_{t \in [u+s,u+T)} $$ is a $(\hat{P}_{u,w(s)},({\mathscr B}_{t}(W_{u,w(s)}))_{t \in [u+s,u+T)})$-martingale. This implies that a stochastic process $$ \left(f(w'(t-s))-f(w(s))-\int_{u+s}^{t}(Af)(w'(v-s)){\rm d}v\right)_{t \in [u+s,u+T)} $$ is a $(\hat{P}_{u,w(s)},({\mathscr B}_{t}(W_{u,w(s)}))_{t \in [u+s,u+T)})$-martingale. Thus a stochastic process $\{X(t-s)\}_{t \in [u+s,u+T)}$ is a solution to the equation (8.23) with $X(u)=w(s)$. Hence by the uniqueness of solutions to the equation (8.23), we obtain $$ (2) \quad \hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,w(s)}[f(w'(t-s))]=\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{s,w(s)}[f(w'(t))]. $$ Consequently, by (1) and (2), $$ \hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,x}[f(w(t)){\bf 1}_{A}(w)] =\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,x}[\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{s,w(s)}[f(w'(t))]{\bf 1}_{A}(w)]. $$ This implies that $$ \hat{{\mathbb E}}_{u,x}[f(w(t))|{\mathscr B}_{s}(W_{u,x})] =\hat{{\mathbb E}}_{s,w(s)}[f(w'(t))] \quad \text{a.a.} \, w(\hat{P}_{u,x}). $$