Solution

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Refining time alone converges to the fixed-grid, spatially discretized solution, assuming the time-dependent coefficients and boundary forcing are suitably regular. In time-to-maturity , the grid values solve a finite system . For fixed , the explicit Euler method converges to this system as ; time-step error decreases to zero.
The spatial finite difference error remains. Thus the limit is not in general the exact continuous pricing solution: sufficiently small time steps reveal an error plateau of order under the usual smooth-solution assumptions. A truncated-domain boundary error also remains fixed unless negligible as stipulated.

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