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Past exam of the theoretical physics II course of the University of Cambridge 2015 Paper 1 2 d Solution by
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The normalized Dirichlet eigenfunctions on and their decay rates areTheir norms are one because the sine-squared integral is . At the initial position zero, , so all even disappear. For , the two signs from and cancel, yieldingThis holds for and is zero outside. The kernel is even in , vanishes at both boundaries and tends weakly to the initial delta. The eigenvalues are decay rates rather than quantum energies unless one makes an additional unit convention.
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