SDE and elliptic operators

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Say $X$ is the solution of a SDE, stopped at the exit time from a bounded domain $D\subset R^d$. This means that given some filtered probability space where $B$ is a $d$-dimensional brownian motion, and $\sigma:\mathbb{R}^d\to \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}$, $b:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}^d$ measurable functions, one has $$ X=x_0+\int_0^t \sigma(X_s) dB_s + \int_0^t b(X_s) ds$$ for all $t \leq \tau$ where $\tau=\inf\{t>0: X_t \notin D\} \lt \infty $ a.s.

Suppose now that $F$ is a $\mathcal{C}^2$ on $D$ and that it satisfies $LF=0$ in $D$, where

$$ LF(x):= \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i,j \leq d} a_{i,j}(x) \frac{\partial^2 F}{\partial{x_i}\partial{x_j}}(x)+\sum_{i=0}^d b_i(x)\frac{\partial F}{\partial x_i}$$ where $A=\sigma \sigma^t$

This is where my problems begin: according to my notes, one can see using Ito's formula that $F(X^{\tau}_t)$ is a local martingale since the other terms vanish because $LF=0$ and $d\langle X^i, X^j \rangle = a_{i,j}(X_t)dt$. I don't understand why the latter equality holds and in general would be grateful to anyone who could show me this computation with Ito's formula.

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The latter equality simply holds because, due to the SDE that $X$ satisfies, \begin{align} \langle X^i,X^j\rangle_t&=\left\langle\sum_{k=1}^d\int_0^.\sigma_{ik}(X_s)\,dB^k_s,\sum_{l=1}^d\int_0^.\sigma_{jl}(X_s)\,dB^l_s\right\rangle_t\\ &=\sum_{k,l=1}^d\left\langle \int_0^.\sigma_{ik}(X_s)\,dB^k_s,\int_0^.\sigma_{jl}(X_s)\,dB^l_s\right\rangle_t\\ &=\sum_{k=1}^d\int_0^t\sigma_{ik}(X_s)\sigma_{jk}(X_s)\,ds\\ &=\int_0^ta_{ij}(X_s)\,ds\,. \end{align}