Write the free surface as the zero set
Because this is a material surface, the kinematic boundary condition is . Thus, on ,
Therefore
at the free surface. This is the kinematic boundary condition for a free-surface graph.
Use and the canonical commutation relation. With ,
Using these two transformation laws on gives
These are the orbital angular momentum commutation relations.
Now
The factor is antisymmetric in and its remaining product is symmetric after the two terms are combined, so the contraction vanishes:
The same commutators show that and are rotational scalars: their commutators with every vanish by contraction of the antisymmetric with a symmetric product. Therefore also commutes with every , and for
we have , hence
In particular are pairwise commuting Hermitian operators. By simultaneous diagonalization, they admit a common eigenbasis, subject to the usual spectral-domain qualifications for unbounded operators. This is the rotational invariance of a central-potential Hamiltonian.
Let
Convolution with the initial Dirac delta function translates the heat kernel, while part (b) propagates the impulsive source from time one. Hence
At this becomes
It vanishes exactly when
This is the cancellation of two heat-kernel impulses.
The causal Green function for the heat operator is
where is the Heaviside step function. It vanishes for , satisfies the homogeneous heat equation away from the source, and approaches as . Superposing the responses to all infinitesimal sources gives Duhamel principle:
The lower limit and causality give the required homogeneous initial data.
Take the Fourier transform in . Since , the transformed heat equation is
Therefore
The given transform pair and the convolution theorem yield the heat-kernel solution
Let and , where the variations vanish on the boundary. The first variation is
Applying integration by parts to the four derivative terms and discarding the boundary contributions gives
The variations and are independent and arbitrary in the interior. The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations therefore gives the two Euler-Lagrange equations for two fields
The coefficient matrix has eigenvector with eigenvalue and eigenvector with eigenvalue . Write
Since
and , the system diagonalises to
Using an integrating factor gives
The unique fastest term is therefore
Consequently diverges for , tends to zero for , and for tends to the finite nonzero vector
Thus the only requested integer is
This is an instance of dominant eigenmode in a forced linear system.
Taking the Laplace transform of the differential equation and using
gives
Hence
Whenever is not an eigenvalue of , the matrix is invertible, and thus
This is the Laplace-transform solution of a constant-coefficient vector ODE.
Set . The given homogeneous solution is , so the preceding formula says
for every initial vector . Equality on every vector gives the matrix identity
on the common domain of convergence and in particular away from the eigenvalues of . This is the Laplace transform of a matrix exponential.
Because the matrix-valued Laplace transform is taken componentwise, for every we have
The sum is finite and is constant, so it may be moved outside the integral. Therefore
Use the hyperboloid model with Minkowski inner product
Put the vertex with angle at , and place the endpoints of its adjacent sides of lengths and at
The geodesic through perpendicular to has spacelike unit normal
while the geodesic through perpendicular to has spacelike unit normal
These two geodesics form the remaining two sides of the quadrilateral. Their angle equals the angle between their normals in the tangent plane at their intersection. The third right angle therefore gives
Dividing by proves the Lambert quadrilateral identity
Rotate the disc so that lies on the positive real axis. From part (b), the perpendicular hyperbolic line is a Euclidean circle orthogonal to the unit circle, with centre on the real axis and radius . Orthogonality of the two circles gives
Combining the two equations yields
The radial distance formula from part (b) says
The hyperbolic double-angle identities now give
Therefore
This is the Euclidean circle representing a perpendicular hyperbolic line.
The Poincare disc model is
Its geodesics through the origin are the Euclidean diameters. To see directly that the radial segment from to minimizes length, write an arbitrary joining curve as . Its hyperbolic length satisfies
The radial segment has constant and monotone , so equality holds. Hence
and every radial diameter is length minimizing. Rotational symmetry and uniqueness for the geodesic equation show that these are all geodesics through .
Given any geodesic and a point on it, a disc-preserving map
takes to the origin. By part (a), is a hyperbolic isometry and commutes with . The transformed geodesic is a diameter, hence a generalized circle invariant under . Its inverse image is therefore also a Generalized circle under a Möbius transformation invariant under . Thus every hyperbolic geodesic is the part in of a Euclidean line or circle preserved by reflection in the unit circle; equivalently, it is a diameter or a circle orthogonal to the unit circle. This is the Geodesics of the Poincare disc description.

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