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While the up-and-out digital put is alive, its pricing domain is , . Its Black-Scholes equation, terminal financial payoff, and absorbing boundary condition are
For completeness, the natural limiting condition is , with . A positive geometric Brownian motion cannot hit zero in finite time, and from a very small starting value the survival and below-strike terminal events have probability tending to one. If the barrier has already been hit, its value is zero regardless of the current stock price.
For , the terminal payoff tends to one from inside at , while an already hit barrier pays zero. Thus there is a terminal-boundary corner discontinuity; the terminal condition is imposed only for , not as a requirement of continuous extension at .

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