Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-fixed-point-methods-for-nonlinear-partial-differential-equations-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/3/b/i/solution

Choose the real zero-trace Sobolev space
The Poincaré inequality makes this an equivalent Sobolev norm. Since the dimension is five, the Sobolev conjugate exponent is . The Sobolev embedding theorem gives continuously. Boundedness of and Lp inclusion on a finite measure space then give continuously, say .
For , the weak formulation is
The zero Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed through the Sobolev trace. Hölder's inequality verifies every term:
Thus , while , and all three pairings are finite bounded linear functionals in . The choice is sufficient; it is not intended to be the largest possible space of data.

New to topics? Read the docs here!