Solution

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Put . The Black-Scholes reflection symmetry maps to , which solves the same PDE. Their difference vanishes at . For at maturity the reflected argument is below , where the terminal function in part ii is zero. Thus the boundary and terminal data of the alive down-and-out put are satisfied:
The killed-domain Feynman-Kac formula identifies this solution with the discounted payoff conditional on survival. For , or after any prior barrier hit, the actual price is zero. The reflected difference is a formula on the alive domain ; extending that algebraic expression to generally gives a nonzero, possibly negative function and is not a valid barrier-option price.

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