Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 29K a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Under the usual regularity conditions, consistency and asymptotic normality of a maximum likelihood estimator givewhere is the one-observation Fisher information matrix. In a scalar model this reads .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 28J d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Use the convention , so when . Conditional on , the last jump is the largest of independent uniform points on . The stated order statistic formula givesand hence, for every ,Putting and averaging over ,This agrees with age of a Poisson process.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 28J c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Condition on . By Poisson process conditional arrival times, the jump times are the ordered version of independent uniformly distributed on . The sum is symmetric in the marked pairs, and the marks are independent, soWrite the bracket as . Averaging over the Poisson distribution of givesThis is the exponential formula for a marked Poisson sum.
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For , the probability of one jump in each infinitesimal interval around and no other jump by time gives the joint densityfor together with the event . Sincethe conditional density ison that ordered simplex.
Now independent uniform points on have joint density on the cube. Each ordered vector has permutations, so their order statistics have density on the same simplex. The densities agree, proving Poisson process conditional arrival times.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 28J a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Superpose the two independent Poisson processes. The combined process has rate , and each arrival is independently a Number 1 bus with probability and a Number 8 bus with probability . Therefore the number of Number 8 buses before the first Number 1 has the geometric distribution on , andThis is number of one Poisson type before another with rates and .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 27K b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Fix and letThis is a Dynkin system. It contains . If , thenso it is closed under complements. Countable additivity gives closure under countable disjoint unions.
The hypothesis says . Since is a pi-system, Dynkin lemma yieldsThus the factorization holds for every and every .
Now fix such a and defineThe identical calculation makes a Dynkin system. The first step gives , so a second application of Dynkin lemma givesTherefore the probability factorization holds for everywhich is precisely independence of the two sigma-algebras. This is independence extended from generating pi-systems.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 27K a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Dynkin lemma, also called the pi-lambda theorem, states that if a Dynkin system contains a pi-system , then
Let be the smallest Dynkin system containing . It is enough to prove that is a sigma-algebra, because then
First fix and defineThis is a Dynkin system. It contains because ; closure under relative complements follows fromand closure under disjoint unions follows by distributing over the union. Since is closed under intersections, . Minimality therefore givesThus whenever and .
Now fix and defineThe same argument shows that is a Dynkin system, and the preceding paragraph shows that it contains . Hence . We have proved that is itself a pi-system.
A Dynkin system that is also a pi-system is a sigma-algebra: it is closed under arbitrary finite intersections, hence finite unions by complements, and any countable union can be disjointified before using closure under disjoint unions. Therefore , proving the lemma.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 26G d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The induced metric makes the compact surface a compact Riemannian manifold. By the Hopf-Rinow theorem it is geodesically complete, so every is defined on all of . In particular, is defined for every .
The global exponential mapis smooth by smooth dependence of geodesics on initial data. Since is a smooth section of , their compositionis smooth.
For , defineCompleteness makes this a well-defined smooth homotopy, with and . By homotopy invariance of degree modulo two,This is the exponential displacement map on a compact surface.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 26G c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For , let be the maximal geodesic satisfyingThe exponential map ison the domain of the exponential mapThis is an open, star-shaped neighbourhood of zero. In local coordinates the geodesic equation is a smooth ordinary differential equation, so smooth dependence on its initial position and velocity proves that is smooth on its domain.
For both requested phenomena consider the embedded surfacewith . Its geodesics are Euclidean straight lines for as long as they remain in . The initial vector would givewhich reaches the missing origin at . Thus , and the domain is not all of .
The point is not in the image of . Any geodesic from to would have to be their unique Euclidean straight line, which passes through the omitted origin. Hence this exponential map is also not surjective, as summarized by exponential map of the punctured plane.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 26G b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Assume first that is connected; otherwise the definition is made separately on each connected component. Choose a regular value and define the degree modulo two by
The following course results make this well-defined.
- By Sard theorem, regular values are dense, so one can choose .
- By the preimage theorem, is a zero-dimensional submanifold because . It is discrete and closed in compact , hence finite.
- The parity is independent of the regular value. Indeed, after choosing a path between two regular values transverse to , its inverse image is a compact one-dimensional manifold whose boundary is the disjoint union of the two fibres. Every compact one-manifold has an even number of boundary points.
The same transverse-preimage argument applied to a smooth homotopy proves homotopy invariance. Consequently the definition depends only on , rather than on the chosen regular value.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 26G a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
A point is a regular value of the smooth map if, for every , the derivativeis surjective. A value outside the image is regular vacuously.
For a nonvacuous example, takeThe value is regular: its fibre is the unit circle, and at every on that circle,is a nonzero linear functional and hence surjective.
Sard theorem states that the set of critical values of a smooth map between smooth manifolds has measure zero in the target. Equivalently, almost every target point is a regular value.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 23F c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Compact support and the fundamental theorem of calculus give, for every ,whereApplying the same argument in the other coordinate gives
Multiplication and Fubini's theorem now yieldFinally, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThus the required estimate holds with ; it is the Ladyzhenskaya inequality in two dimensions.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 23F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For , choose nonzero and with . DefineThese functions are continuous and belong to the Lebesgue space , while their restrictions to the hyperplane are all the same:Changing variables in the normal coordinate givesIf the claimed bounded existed, thena contradiction. This scaling argument is the failure of an Lp hyperplane trace.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 23F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For , the Sobolev trace theorem states that the restriction map initially defined on smooth functions extends uniquely to a bounded linear operator
Take first in the Schwartz space. Up to the harmless constant determined by the Fourier transform convention,The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, with weights , givesAfter the substitution , the second factor iswhere finiteness is exactly the condition . Multiplying by and integrating in yieldsDensity of the Schwartz space in the Sobolev space completes the unique bounded extension.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 22F c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Fix and . Positivity and linearity giveBecause converges in the continuous dual space, its norms are bounded, soAlso , while because the fixed functional is continuous. Passing to the limit yieldsfor every real . If , a sufficiently small of the opposite sign makes the right-hand side negative. Hence for every , so and .
The graph is therefore closed. The closed graph theorem now proves that is continuous. This is precisely continuity of a positive linear map into a dual space.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 22F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let be a Cauchy sequence in this norm. For each ,so is Cauchy in the scalar field. Define . Passing to limits in the linearity identities shows that is linear.
A norm-Cauchy sequence is bounded, say . Hence , so . Given , choose such that for . Letting givesfor every , and therefore . Thus in operator norm, proving completeness of the dual space: is Banach.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 22F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The open mapping theorem states that every surjective bounded linear map between Banach spaces maps open sets to open sets. Equivalently, there is such that
The closed graph theorem states that a linear map between Banach spaces is continuous if and only if its graphis closed in .
Assume the open mapping theorem and suppose is closed. As a closed subspace of the Banach space , the graph is itself Banach. The coordinate projectionis a bounded linear bijection. By the open mapping theorem, is bounded. The other coordinate projection is bounded, andThus is bounded and hence continuous. This is the closed graph theorem from the bounded inverse theorem argument.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 20H b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Because , we have andFor , the minimal polynomial isSince , reduction modulo gives . Its two roots are distinct, sowith distinct prime ideals of norm . Thus splits completely, as recorded in splitting of three in Q of square root minus p.
The ideal class group is the group of nonzero fractional ideals of modulo the subgroup of principal fractional ideals. Saying that has order means that is the least positive integer for which is principal.
Suppose for contradiction that is odd and has order . Then for some , and taking norms givesWrite , where have the same parity. ThenIf , the right-hand side is at least , contradicting . Hence , so is a rational algebraic integer and therefore an integer. But then , impossible when is odd. This proves the odd-order obstruction for a split prime in an imaginary quadratic field and shows that the order cannot equal .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 20H a ii Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
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