Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-107/2/b/solution

The strict maximum principle applied to with zero boundary data gives in . On set . Then , while on and this boundary value is positive somewhere because is proper. Hence inside and . The Hopf boundary point lemma at this boundary minimum gives
Therefore , proving the normal derivatives are unequal.

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