Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-105/2/b/ii/solution

On the product Hilbert space define
and
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality makes and bounded. On the diagonal,
The Poincare inequality controls by , and
The displayed diagonal value therefore controls the full product norm, so is coercive. The Lax-Milgram theorem now gives exactly one pair satisfying the weak identities. Hence a unique weak solution exists for every .

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