Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/iii/paper-105/1/2/c/solution

Taken literally, the printed condition is insufficient: the choice of which factor vanishes may depend on the multi-index. For a counterexample already at , let , let be a small rectangle compactly contained in the unit ball, and choose nonnegative with positive integral. Put
On the vertical edges , and on the horizontal edges and its derivatives vanish. Every first derivative of is zero. Thus for every the same-index alternative in the PDF holds at every boundary point. But
The valid complete boundary-jet condition for formal adjoints is that, at each boundary point, either all derivatives of through order vanish or all such derivatives of vanish. On a bounded piecewise smooth domain with smooth coefficients up to its closure, repeated integration by parts produces boundary terms of the form , multiplied by a normal component, with . Expanding the second factor shows that every summand vanishes under this stronger whole-jet alternative. Hence the desired identity holds under that condition. The later cap argument satisfies this stronger condition face by face, so it remains valid despite the literal error in this subpart. Boundary regularity and finite integrals are also needed for a general noncompact-support integration formula; the caps used below have them.

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