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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 107 5 d Solution by
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Let , so has zero Dirichlet boundary condition. Using the supplied form of the minimal surface equation for a graph, setFor and , the difference bound impliesandThe shifted arguments stay in the permitted radius-two ball, and . The Laplacian with zero Dirichlet boundary condition has trivial null space by the maximum principle for harmonic functions. Choose small enough that and , for the constants in part (c) with . Its small-data existence for a nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problem supplies , and solves the minimal surface equation for a graph with the required boundary values.
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