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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 115 1 c Solution by
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Choose a coordinate ball around and a smaller convex coordinate ball whose closure lies in . For , let be the constant coordinate vector from to . Choose a smooth bump function supported in and equal to one on , and define in the chartextending it by zero outside . This is a compactly supported smooth vector field. The segment stays in , where , so uniqueness for ordinary differential equations givesIn particular, .
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