Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/iii/paper-69/1/c/solution

Write the transverse displacement as and take the common line-of-sight interval to be . The rotation measure is a line integral of the magnetic field, so its correlation is
Substitute the Fourier inversion of the solenoidal isotropic spectral tensor. Keeping the finite observation length gives the exact windowed expression
The allowed extension of the longitudinal displacement integral to the whole real line is the long-path projection of a magnetic correlation. It applies when is much larger than the correlation length: equivalently, the squared window becomes inside the integral. The Dirac delta function sets , leaving
Statistical isotropy makes this a function of . The displayed two-dimensional relation is the intended long-path approximation; the preceding windowed formula accounts for finite-length edge effects.

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