Solution

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A self-financing replicating strategy must fund both the claim's price change and its outgoing cash flow:
Apply Itô's formula to . Matching the diffusion gives . Matching drift and eliminating gives the Black-Scholes equation with claim dividends
The physical drift cancels because stock risk is hedged. The cash-flow term has a plus sign because it is a payment to the holder.

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