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Expand the radial modified Helmholtz equation as $Ly=-y^{\prime \prime }-2y^{\prime }/x+y$. Setting $y=z/x$ gives $Ly=(-z^{\prime \prime }+z)/x$, soBoundedness at zero requires $A+B=0$, whereas boundedness at infinity requires $A=0$. The respective adapted homogeneous solutions are thereforeThe first has limit one at zero. Their Wronskian is $u{v}^{\prime }-u^{\prime }v=-x^{-2}$. Since the highest-derivative coefficient of $L$ is $-1$, the Green function must have first-derivative jump $-1$. The radial modified Helmholtz Green function on the half-line isIt is continuous at the source, and its derivative jump is $-1$, giving $L_{x}G=\delta (x-\xi )$. For fixed source it tends to $\xi e^{-\xi }$ as $x\downarrow 0$ and decays at infinity. This kernel is for the original operator and ordinary measure $d\xi$; multiplying the equation by $x^2$ would change the source normalization.

For the compact source, split the integral at $\xi =x$ when $x<R$. The needed antiderivatives areThuswhile for $x>R$ the result is $e^{-x}{x}^{-1}{\int }_0^R\xi \sinh \xi d\xi$. Simplifying givesThe continuous value at zero is $1-(R+1)e^{-R}$, and $y^{\prime }(0)=0$. Both $y$ and $y^{\prime }$ match at $R$, so no extra Dirac delta appears there. The only homogeneous solution bounded at both ends is zero, establishing uniqueness.

Since the endpoints represent the same point of the tube, both density and diffusive flux must match. For a positive diffusion coefficient $\lambda$, the periodic boundary conditions areFor separation of variables, periodic spatial modes solve $X^{\prime \prime }+n^{2}X=0$ and have time factors $e^{-\lambda n^{2}t}$. The constant mode has no decay. The periodic diffusion on a circle solution is thereforewhere the Fourier coefficients areThe expression for $a_n$ includes $n=0$.

The specified profile is even, so $b_n=0$. Its mean follows from ${\int }_0^{\pi }(\pi -x{)}^{2}dx={\pi }^3/3$, giving $a_0=2{\pi }^2/3$. For $n\ge 1$, two integrations by parts giveConsequentlyAll nonconstant normal modes decay for $\lambda >0$, so the density becomes uniform:The conserved total amount is ${\int }_{-\pi }^{\pi }udx=2{\pi }^3/3$. The initial cusp at zero is compatible with an L2 space solution and is immediately smoothed by diffusion. At $\lambda =0$ there would be no relaxation, so positivity is needed for this long-time conclusion.

Use the real weighted inner product $⟨u,v{⟩}_w={\int }_a^{b}wuvdx$ and the energy bilinear form $B(u,v)={\int }_a^b(p{u}^{\prime }{v}^{\prime }+quv)dx$. Integration by parts, the endpoint conditions, and the Sturm-Liouville problem giveThus orthonormality in the stated expansion givesand hence the Rayleigh quotientThe expansion is understood for nonzero admissible functions with finite norm and energy.

For a general endpoint-preserving variation $y+\epsilon \eta$, explicitlysoThe fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations shows that stationarity is exactly the eigenvalue equation with $\lambda =\Lambda$. Conversely an eigenfunction has vanishing first variation and quotient equal to its eigenvalue. Completeness gives the same weighted-average formula for any nonzero admissible expansion, even one with zero ground-state coefficient. Since every ${\lambda }_i\ge {\lambda }_0$,This is the Rayleigh-Ritz variational principle.

For the interval problem, the normalized Dirichlet eigenfunctions and their eigenvalues, with the paper's zero-based indexing, areFor $u=x(1-x)$, direct integration gives $F={\int }_0^1(1-2x{)}^{2}dx=1/3$ and $G={\int }_0^1{x}^2(1-x{)}^{2}dx=1/30$. ThereforeThe sine expansion and Rayleigh quotient of a parabolic Dirichlet trial follow from the coefficient integralConsequently the requested expansion hasEquivalently $u=(8/{\pi }^3){\sum }_{n\ge 1,n\text{ odd}}\sin (n\pi x)/n^3$. In particular $c_1=0$: the first excited eigenfunction $\sqrt{2}\sin (2\pi x)$ is antisymmetric about $1/2$, whereas the trial function is symmetric. Since $10-{\pi }^2>0$, the final ratio is exactlyThe first nonzero correction is $c_2=1/27$, not $c_1$. Reindexing only the nonzero terms would change the meaning of the requested ratio and is not used here.