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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 61 1 a Solution by
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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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