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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2024 Paper 1 2 d Solution by
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Let . The first normalized Fourier sine series coefficient isStrict positivity follows because , has positive total mass, and everywhere inside the interval. In particular, there is no cancellation that could remove the slowest term. This is the positivity of the first Dirichlet reaction-diffusion coefficient.
For finite initial mass , all coefficients satisfy . The eigenfunction expansion therefore gives the uniform boundThe positive first profile thus controls the long-time behavior. We recover exactly the threshold , with decay below it and unbounded positive growth at every interior point above it. The finite-mass condition is the usual meaning of an initial density profile here; standard positive-time smoothing gives the same conclusion in the usual broader admissible data classes.
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