merton model alternative derivation

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Suppose
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(assets’ value) under the physical measure, plus the other assumptions of the Merton model.
Suppose further that debt and equity are tradeable assets that satisfy
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and follow
processes
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,
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for differentiable functions.
By considering a locally risk-free self-financing portfolio of bonds and equity(which by necessity will earn the risk-free rate of return), prove directly that both
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,
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satisfy the Black-Scholes equation
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