Stock return distribution and expected payoff

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I just read a working paper and I am trying to get behind the authors' logic of their calculation of a ten-state payoff-diagram of a specific stock (ten payoff states with equal probability).

In their paper they simulate a year worth of daily stock returns with with mu = 0.06 and sigma = 0.2.

To calculate the diagram they first calculate the physical quantiles of the lognormal distribution.

d1 = qlnorm(0.1, 0.06, 0.2), ..., d10 = qlnorm(1, 0.06, 0.2)

Then they assume a risk-free rate of 0% and calculate the risk-neutral probability of the physical quantile

p1 = plnorm(d1, 0.00, 0.2), ... , p10 = plnorm(d10, 0.00, 0.2)

Finally the 10-state payoff digram looks like this

s1 = 1/p1 - 1, s2 = 1/(p2-p1) -1, ... , s10 = 1/(p10-p9) -1

Could someone explain the logic behind this or link me to an article where it explained?