Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 105 1 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The scalar Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem says that a partial differential equation solved for its highest derivative normal to a real-analytic non-characteristic hypersurface, with real-analytic coefficients and Cauchy data, has a unique local real-analytic solution. In coordinates, an equationhas such a solution near the origin when and the prescribed values of for are real analytic.
Choose a real-analytic primitive of near zero and apply the theorem to the scalar Laplace equationThe line is non-characteristic because the coefficient of is one. DefineThen and , while equality of mixed derivatives and the Laplace equation giveThus is the required local real-analytic solution.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 105 1 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem says that an order- scalar quasilinear partial differential equation with real-analytic coefficients has a unique local real-analytic solution near each point of a real-analytic non-characteristic hypersurface, provided the prescribed Cauchy dataare real analytic there. The uniqueness is among local real-analytic solutions agreeing with all of those data.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 105 1 e Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For ,The prescribed function is , so part c gives . Hence the non-characteristic condition reduces toThe Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem therefore guarantees a unique local real-analytic solution at exactly those pointsfor which