Solution

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Differentiate the dividend PDE with respect to . The diffusion term contributes , and the stock-drift term contributes . With , the coefficient of is . Therefore
The terminal condition is wherever the contingent claim payoff is differentiable, with an appropriate weak or limiting interpretation at contingent claim payoff kinks. In the next part the squared positive-part contingent claim payoff is continuously differentiable, so its terminal option delta has no jump.

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