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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 1 30B Solution by
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For the Laplace method, under the usual regularity ( continuous at zero and sufficiently smooth near its isolated minimum), write . On any interval bounded away from zero, continuity and uniqueness of the minimum give a positive gap in , making that contribution exponentially smaller. Set near zero. The leading integral isA local quadratic lower bound on justifies dominated convergence after this rescaling. Thus, when ,If , the displayed coefficient vanishes and further local terms of determine the first nonzero asymptotic term; one must not interpret a zero coefficient as an asymptotic equivalence.
For the first Bessel integral, take , . The endpoint minimum is , , , so after dividing by its leading term is .
For the second integral, gives, for fixed real ,Completing the square proves the last bound for large . It is exponentially smaller than the first integral; the fixed prefactor does not change this. Therefore
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