SDE of a (geometric/standard) Brownian motion

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We know that the relevant SDE for the geometric Brownian motion X(t) is as follows: $$ dX(t) = \mu X(t)dt + \sigma X(t)dB(t), $$ where B(t) is the (Standard?) Brownian motion, $\mu$ is a drift constant and $\sigma$ is the standard deviation.

I have also seen the following SDE for Brownian motion with drift (Wiener Process)

$$ dX(t) = \mu dt + \sigma dB(t), $$

1) How X(t) was omitted in the second equation? under which condition?

2) We know that the variance of the Standard BM is $\sigma^2= 2Dt$ and so the standard deviation is $\sqrt{2Dt}$. Also, I have seen in some references that $dB=\sqrt {dt}$. Does it mean that we can write : $\sigma dB(t)=\sqrt{2Dtdt}$ ?

The second equation is important, because it seems that the stochastic process of the (standard) Brownian motion $$ X(t) = \sigma B(t), $$ was derived from the second equation(for $X(0)=0$).

3) According to what i wrote in my second question, is it correct to write: $ X(t) = \sqrt{2Dt}\sqrt t$?

I would appreciate if you can correct any probable mistake in the above equations, or add more about the differences between Geometric BM, BM with drift and standard BM(Wiener process).

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1) Both are two different equations. But solutions of such equation are know as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes.

2) No. The writing $f(t,\cdot )\mathrm d B_t=f(t,\cdot )\sqrt{dt}$ is a formal writing to denotes that the quadric variation of $$Y_t:\omega \mapsto Y_t(\omega ):=\int_0^t f(s,\omega )\,\mathrm d B_s(\omega )$$ is given by $$\left<Y\right>_t=\int_0^t f(s,\omega )^2\,\mathrm d s.$$

3) If $$\mathrm d X_t=\mu\,\mathrm d t+\sigma \,\mathrm d B_t,$$ then $$X_t=X_0+\mu t+\sigma B_t,$$ and not what you wrote. And no, this doesn't means that $X_t=X_0+\mu t+\sigma \sqrt{t},$ since $B_t\neq \sqrt t$. But even if $$\mathrm d X_t=\mathrm d B_t,\tag{E}$$ how can $X_t=\sqrt t$ ? There is no randomness in the last equality, so why using such a technical notation in $(E)$ to denotes simply $t\mapsto \sqrt t$ ? Mathematicians are not that Sado-Maso :-)