Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2003/iii/paper-61/1/a/solution

Let . Expanding the proposed local relation gives . Choose the derivative terms in to cancel the mixed spectral terms:
Indeed,
so the resulting divergence is exactly . This establishes the identity for every complex spectral parameter , with the given differentiability. The cubic dispersion relation has the reverse sign from the usual convention; that sign affects both the spectral sectors and the number of required boundary conditions.

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