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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ia Paper 2 6B Solution by
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Write . The chain rule gives and . Consequently the coefficients of and cancel, while that of is . The transformed partial differential equation is . Integrating once in each variable gives the most general twice differentiable solution,where are arbitrary twice differentiable functions. The change of variables is invertible because its Jacobian determinant is .
On , the value condition gives . Differentiating it yields . The derivative condition gives . Subtraction therefore gives and . The constants in and cancel in their sum, leavingIndeed , , , so the original operator gives , and the two initial-line conditions hold.
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