Cauchy-Pompeiu formula 2026-10-06
For a continuously differentiable function on a bounded planar domain, the Cauchy-Pompeiu formula supplements the Cauchy integral formula with an area integral of its Wirtinger derivative. Apply the Generalized Stokes theorem to on a punctured domain; the small-circle integral supplies . If the boundary term vanishes at infinity, it gives the Cauchy-Green operator representation .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 69 2 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Work first with in the Schwartz space, so that all Fourier manipulations and spectral contour integrals are justified; weaker classes follow by the usual density or distribution arguments. DefineThe phase is purely imaginary. Since , setting reduces the spectral equation to . The whole-plane Cauchy-Pompeiu formula therefore constructs the solution decaying spatially at infinity:The freedom to add times an entire function is removed by this decay condition. For every fixed , the integral is a spatial Cauchy-Green operator applied to a modulated source.
Now differentiate in the conjugate spectral parameter. The two exponential derivatives produce , canceling the Cauchy denominator, soThis is the spectral dbar equation: its right-hand side is the forward transform of multiplied by a known plane wave. Apply the whole-plane Cauchy-Pompeiu formula again, now in :The spatial spectral equation also gives as . One way to justify this is to integrate by parts in the first Cauchy integral: , where the modulated Cauchy integral tends to zero by the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma. Comparing the coefficient of the spectral contour integral therefore givesThis derives the transform pair from two uses of the Cauchy-Pompeiu formula, not from an assumed inversion formula.
To identify the usual normalization, write and . Then . Set , , so . The result is exactly the two-dimensional Fourier transform pairThe factor four in the real-frequency change of variables is essential.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 69 2 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Use the Wirtinger derivatives and , and area measure . The supplied boundary-integral identity is the planar Generalized Stokes theorem; the usual Poincare lemma is a different local exactness result.
Let and . Remove a disk of radius around , and apply Generalized Stokes theorem to the one-form on the punctured domain. Away from the puncture,The outer boundary is counterclockwise and the small inner circle clockwise. Its counterclockwise integral tends to . Passing to the limit gives the Cauchy-Pompeiu formulaThe weak singularity is locally integrable. If the boundary term vanishes on expanding to the whole plane, the formula becomes . In particular it yields the distributional normalization . For holomorphic functions the area term vanishes and one recovers the Cauchy integral formula.
Spectral dbar equation 2026-10-06
A dbar equation in a complex spectral parameter, rather than the original spatial coordinate. In spectral reconstruction, its right-hand side is transformed data. A Cauchy-Pompeiu formula in the spectral plane reconstructs the auxiliary function; an asymptotic coefficient or the original differential equation then recovers the spatial field.