Solution
ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-105/2/a/solution
Suppose the claimed Poincare inequality with a partial Dirichlet boundary fails. There are withAfter the normalization ,Thus is bounded in the Sobolev space . The Rellich-Kondrashov compactness theorem and the corresponding compact embedding for a bounded domain give a subsequence that converges strongly in and weakly in to some . The Sobolev space with a partial Dirichlet condition is a closed vector subspace, hence weakly closed, so . Moreover , and connectedness of makes a constant function. Its trace vanishes on the positive-measure set , so that constant is zero. This contradictsTherefore some satisfiesSince the reverse bound is immediate,The gradient seminorm is a norm on because equality to zero would make a constant whose trace on is zero.
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