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Past exam of the differential equations 1 course of the University of Oxford 2021 1 b ii Solution by
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Use the initial conditions , , in the characteristic equations for a transport equation. The resulting parametrized solution surface isThe Jacobian determinant of is . In fact the inverse is explicit:Consequently the explicit solution of a differential equation on the region reached from the data isTo verify it away from , set . Direct differentiation gives and . At we have , giving precisely the prescribed boundary condition.
Across the formula remains continuous and locally Lipschitz, is a smooth function on each side, and solves the partial differential equation along every characteristic curve. It is also a weak solution, since its first distributional derivatives agree almost everywhere with its ordinary derivatives. It is not a classical solution throughout the region because of the inherited corner.
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