Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/iii/paper-105/2/e/solution

There is a sign issue in the printed problem. Part (c) constructs the inverse of , whereas the second equation printed in part (e) contains . The latter operator is invertible with homogeneous Dirichlet data only when is not a Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue. Thus the assertion as printed needs this nonresonance hypothesis; with a minus sign it follows directly from parts (c) and (d).
Under either the intended minus sign or the stated nonresonance condition, let and be the bounded Dirichlet solution operators for the two linear equations. Choose and work with . Since is a Sobolev algebra,
Define
Elliptic regularity gives, on a ball of radius ,
and the difference estimate has Lipschitz constant at most . Choose small and then so that . The contraction mapping theorem gives a solution for . Repeated elliptic regularity and smoothness of bootstrap the solution to .

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