Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 107 4 b i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For , Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and part (a.ii) implyThe John-Nirenberg inequality therefore supplies such that, with denoting the average,Since and are each bounded by this integrand,
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 129 4 iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For , letThe number of ordered three-term arithmetic progressions in isBy the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,The last sum is the additive energy of , namely the number of additive quadruples. If , then
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 202 2 b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Kunita-Watanabe inequality applied to the continuous local martingales gives directlyEquivalently, with the clock and densities from part (i), positivity of the covariance matrix gives , and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 202 2 b i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Apply the realized absolute covariation theorem to each dyadic partition of an interval. More explicitly, use the continuous increasing clock and the Radon-Nikodym theorem to writeFor each time, let have the centered bivariate normal distribution with covariance matrix , and defineThis process is continuous and increasing. To prove convergence, localize , represent the pair as stochastic integrals against a two-dimensional Brownian motion, and approximate the integrands in by bounded step previsible processes. For step integrands, the result is the weak law of large numbers applied on each block to independent Gaussian random variables. The Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequality and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality make the error uniform on each compact interval in probability. Consequentlyin the sense of uniform convergence on compacts in probability.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 205 1 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
PutThe numerator is the linear kernel, while the reciprocal of the denominator is the kernel from part c applied to and . The product of positive-semidefinite kernels therefore shows that is a positive-semidefinite kernel. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality give , soEach power is positive semidefinite by the Schur product theorem, and the convergent sum is positive semidefinite.
Moreover . If is its canonical feature map, thenThe feature-space norm gives symmetry and the triangle inequality. Finally, implies , hence andwhich is equivalent to . Thus is a metric rather than merely a pseudometric.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 205 3 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Part b places in the Lasso cone condition. Keeping the prediction-error term in the same argument giveswhere the second step is the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. The restricted eigenvalue condition givesfor nonzero in this cone. Division by provesThe result is immediate when .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 221 4 iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Condition on the independent external sample, and abbreviate and . Expanding the plug-in estimator around the true nuisance functions giveswhere because the two nuisance mean squared errors vanish, the evaluation sample is independent of the nuisance fits, is bounded, and has bounded support. The linear term is the empirical average of the influence function, so the central limit theorem givesThe remaining bias obeys the Cauchy-Schwarz inequalityThus the claimed conclusion follows under the standard product-rate conditionequivalently . Slutsky theorem then yields
As printed, the paper instead assumes only , which is insufficient with its stated definition of MSE. For example, deterministic nuisance errors of size have both MSEs equal to and satisfy the printed condition, while the scaled product bias is . The result therefore requires the stronger condition above, or “MSE” in the printed rate must be read as root mean squared error.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 343 2 b Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
The Quantum de Finetti theorem says that the fixed- reduced density matrix of an exchangeable -particle state approachesas . Finite versions bound the trace norm error by a constant of order . On a bipartite lattice, the corresponding two-sublattice form is a mixtureThis is the mean-field ansatz from the quantum de Finetti theorem.
The bond energy is a linear functional of . A convex combination cannot have energy below its lowest product component, so it remains only to minimizeThe Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives , with equality for pure antiparallel vectors. This reproduces the Néel state and per bond found in part (a).
Yes. The limiting state saturates the de Finetti mean-field lower bound: the minimizing product state belongs to the allowed de Finetti mixture, and the finite-de-Finetti error tends to zero as . At finite the theorem gives only an approximation; entanglement and correlated fluctuations can lower the energy below the product-state value by corrections that vanish in the infinite-coordination limit.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 105 1 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Testing the weak formulation with the constant function proves the necessary compatibility conditionAssume first that is connected and this condition holds. On the mean-zero Sobolev spaceuse the norm . To prove the needed Poincare-Wirtinger inequality, suppose it failed. There would be with and . The Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem gives a subsequence converging strongly in and weakly in to a function . Its weak derivative vanishes, so connectedness makes constant; its zero mean makes it zero. This contradicts . Hence is an equivalent Hilbert space norm on .
DefineBoundedness of makes a bounded bilinear form, while uniform ellipticity givesso it is a coercive bilinear form. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Poincare-Wirtinger inequality make a bounded linear functional. The Lax-Milgram theorem supplies a unique satisfying for every mean-zero . For arbitrary , subtract its mean; the omitted constant contributes zero on both sides because and . Thus solves the original problem.
If two solutions exist, their difference satisfies , so uniform ellipticity gives . It is therefore constant on . The solution is unique up to an additive constant, and its mean-zero representative is unique. If is disconnected, the precise condition is on every connected component , and one independent additive constant remains on each component.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 106 3 b iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Let with Hilbert--Schmidt, and write . Since , part iii and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for series giveThus is trace class with the required bound.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 106 3 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Factor as in part b(v). Then Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality giveThe defining series for the operator trace is therefore absolutely convergent and satisfies .
For unit vectors , the adjoint operator of is , andHence and part b(iii), followed by Parseval, givesScaling proves . A second use of Parseval yieldswhich proves the asserted rank-one operator formulas.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 129 4 b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality successively in the three shift variables to the correlation with the quadratic phase . At the third step the third additive derivative of its phase vanishes, leavingThus implies
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 129 4 b i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 205 1 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Only the th block can have nonzero subgradient coordinates. If , the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality shows that the unique supporting vector is . At zero, the defining inequality is for every block vector , which is equivalent to . Thus
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 208 2 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Subtract a constant so that , and write , , and . The supplied identity applied to and givesBy Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, andThus , so and in particular . Therefore the standard Laplace distribution has .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 210 2 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
A kernel for density estimation is an integrable function with , usually also bounded and nonnegative, and its scaled version is . For suitable , their convolution is
Because the observations have length-biased density ,Thus the exact bias is , exactly the same as for the ordinary kernel density estimator based directly on observations from .
Write . The estimator is the average of , soIts mean is . Integrating the pointwise variance therefore givesFinally, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality under density givesEquality would require to be constant almost surely, impossible for a density, so . The ordinary KDE has the same negative term but leading integrated variance ; length-biased sampling strictly inflates it.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 210 4 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Le Cam two-point lemma states, for squared-error estimation at parameter points , thatTake , . The one-observation uniform densities overlap on length , so . ThereforeThe first distance inequality gives . Le Cam's lemma now yieldsThis proves the claim with the displayed universal positive constant.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 215 5 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Thomson principle states that the effective resistance is the minimum energy of a unit flow from to :An edge cutset separating and is a set of edges whose removal disconnects them. Every unit flow has net flux one across each such cutset . By Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,For disjoint cutsets, summing these energy lower bounds and applying Thomson's principle gives the Nash-Williams inequalityThe commute time identity is
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 218 3 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The limiting conditional error of one-nearest-neighbour classification is . Put and . By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, the other probabilities satisfyConsequentlyNow , and Jensen inequality gives . Taking expectations proves
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 359 2 b i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Take the inner product of the finite-dimensional equation with . Part a gives exact cancellation of the nonlinear term:By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Poincare inequality,Thus every solution satisfiesThe bound is independent of .