Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2009/paper-2/16/b/solution

For constant , the curl of a cross product identity reduces to
Commuting mixed second partial derivatives gives . Hence the requested sum equals , which is zero because is harmonic. The argument assumes the indicated second derivatives are continuous on the domain.

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