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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 105 1 a Solution by
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The scalar Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem says that a partial differential equation solved for its highest derivative normal to a real-analytic non-characteristic hypersurface, with real-analytic coefficients and Cauchy data, has a unique local real-analytic solution. In coordinates, an equationhas such a solution near the origin when and the prescribed values of for are real analytic.
Choose a real-analytic primitive of near zero and apply the theorem to the scalar Laplace equationThe line is non-characteristic because the coefficient of is one. DefineThen and , while equality of mixed derivatives and the Laplace equation giveThus is the required local real-analytic solution.
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