Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 327 2 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The multiplication of a distribution by a smooth function is . If is a Schwartz function, the Leibniz rule shows that is a continuous map , so is a tempered distribution. When both and are radial, , andThus Multiplication by a radial Schwartz function preserves radial tempered distributions.
For the convolution of a tempered distribution with a Schwartz function, setTranslations of depend smoothly on in the Schwartz space, so this is a smooth function with . The bound for by finitely many seminorms, together with , provesThus the function also defines a tempered distribution. For a radial function , put . Then , soHence Convolution with a radial Schwartz function preserves radial tempered distributions.
Smoothing alone need not give a Schwartz function: for the constant tempered distribution and a Schwartz function with integral one, . The radial Schwartz approximation of tempered distributions therefore combines smoothing with a large-radius cutoff. Choose a nonnegative radial mollifier , supported in the unit ball with integral one, and a radial cutoff function equal to one on the unit ball. PutEach is a smooth function of compact support, hence a Schwartz function, and the two invariance calculations above make it radial.
It remains to prove convergence, including the simultaneous changes of both scales. With , the distributional convolution pairing isFor every fixed , the Leibniz rule, rapid decay outside the radius- ball, and the chain rule for giveConvolution by is uniformly bounded in for , because its shifts have size at most one. The mean value theorem applied to similarly givesSplitting the error into the convolved cutoff error and the approximate identity error provesIf , this yieldsConsequentlyweakly, and even in the strong dual topology, since is uniformly bounded on every subset of the Schwartz space that is a bounded set in a topological vector space. No assertion that itself is rapidly decreasing is needed.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 328 3 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Interpret the malformed printed domain inequality as the first quadrant , as indicated by the two axis boundary conditions. There is also a genuine missing hypothesis: decay of the boundary data does not require the harmonic function itself to be bounded. For zero data, both and satisfy the Laplace equation and both edge values, but the Wirtinger derivative of the latter isThus the data do not determine an arbitrary solution's derivative without a growth restriction. We derive the integral representation for the bounded solution, which is also the standard decaying solution when the continuous edge data decay. Any other admissible unbounded solution can differ by a zero-boundary harmonic function.
The conformal map sends the quadrant bijectively to the complex upper half-plane: the positive real axis maps to , and the positive imaginary axis maps to . Define its real-axis boundary function byThe compatibility at the corner makes continuous there. The Dirichlet Poisson integral in a quadrant follows from the upper-half-plane Poisson kernel:It is bounded by the supremum of the bounded edge data, and the kernel's approximate identity property supplies both Dirichlet boundary conditions. More explicitly, for , where and , this integral isIt displays directly which part of the real-line boundary corresponds to each original axis.
To obtain its derivative, first take real data and use the Schwarz integral formula. A holomorphic function whose real part is the Poisson solution in the -plane isThe regularizing subtraction is independent of and affects only the imaginary normalization; it permits bounded data without an artificial integrability assumption. Then . By the chain rule and the Wirtinger derivative,The factor is , not : taking the real part contributes the factor in the complex derivative. Differentiation under the integral sign is justified uniformly on compact interior subsets because the denominator stays away from the real boundary and decays quadratically at infinity. Splitting the real integral at zero and substituting or gives the holomorphic derivative of a quadrant Dirichlet solution:This converges for bounded data, and in particular for the stated sufficiently decaying data. No interior pole is encountered since . For complex-valued data the same formula holds by applying the real-data construction separately to their real and imaginary parts and using linearity.
An equivalent form, often convenient when the data's derivatives decay, comes from integration by parts. Sincethe two endpoint terms are and . They cancel by the specified compatibility, leavingThis is the harmonic quadrant solution from tangential boundary derivatives applied to the actual derivatives ; the supplied in this question are boundary values, not derivatives. Omitting those primes would solve a different boundary problem.
For completeness, bounded Dirichlet uniqueness in a quadrant selects the solution just constructed. The difference of two bounded solutions is zero on both axes. Odd reflection across each axis gives a bounded harmonic extension to the punctured plane; the removable singularity for a bounded harmonic function fills the corner. The harmonic Liouville theorem makes the extension constant, and oddness makes it zero. Decaying data give a decaying Poisson extension: split the real-axis integral into a fixed compact interval and a tail with arbitrarily small data; the compact contribution tends to zero as , while the tail is bounded by that small supremum.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 341 2 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Insert an exact smooth solution of a differential equation and expand about . The unscaled local truncation error, with every term moved to the left, isHere the constant, first-derivative, and second-derivative terms all cancel, using the chain rule identity . Hence the formal defect convention givesAt , the coefficient of is , so there is no further cancellation. At any other , the cubic coefficient is nonzero.
There is a degeneracy at : both the first-derivative coefficient and vanish. The raw defect still has the displayed formal order two, but it cannot be normalized by into an ordinary first-order consistency of a numerical method test. Thus a convention requiring this nondegenerate normalization would leave the ODE order undefined at . In either convention, it is not a convergent approximation to arbitrary initial-value data; the next part explains why.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 1 8E Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Assume the holonomic constraints have linearly independent gradients, so their common level set is locally a smooth constraint manifold parametrized by . The multiplier form of the Euler-Lagrange equations isAt fixed time . The chain rule for the reduced Lagrangian givesConversely, if these reduced equations hold, the Cartesian Euler-Lagrange residual annihilates every tangent direction. Linear independence of the constraint gradients implies that it is a linear combination of those gradients, giving the required Lagrange multipliers. This proves the local equivalence, including time-dependent constraints; singular constraints would need separate analysis.
For the bead, , soThe autonomous conservation of energy gives . If , the motion has a fixed sign andThe integral is the signed arc length divided by the constant speed, and is locally invertible. The special solution is a stationary bead, for which writing time as a function of its unchanging position is not meaningful.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ia Paper 2 2B Solution 2026-10-03
The chain rule gives . Equality with for every therefore requires and , which implies . Conversely, on the plane this compatibility condition makes an exact differential, so a potential exists.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 2 5C Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Along a curve , the chain rule givesTogether with the second-order partial differential equation, these form a linear system for whose coefficient matrix isA characteristic curve is precisely one along which this system is singular, equivalently where the principal symbol vanishes on a normal covector. Taking the determinant yields
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 3 18D Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Let be the signed air speed along the straw towards the bubble. Conservation of mass in a pipe for the incompressible plug flow givesThe unsteady Bernoulli equation along the straw, whose open end is at atmospheric pressure, givesby the Young–Laplace equation. Substitution yields
Set . Since , the chain rule gives . The initial condition impliesWriting and integrating gives the implicit solutionAt disappearance and , so
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 207 5 b ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Taking logarithms of the Cox partial likelihood givesDifferentiate each term, using the chain rule for the logarithm:This score function is the sum over failures of the observed covariate minus its current risk-weighted mean. Define that mean as ; observations with have no direct event term, although they occur in the relevant risk sets.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 218 3 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
For one observation, let and define . Differentiating the softmax function and its log-likelihood gives . The sigmoid-softmax network gradients areThese equations are backpropagation: use the chain rule through the output affine map, then through the hidden units, then the input affine map.
For a learning rate , select one observation and update every parameter by , computing all entries of the gradient from the old parameters before applying the update. A uniformly selected observation gives an unbiased gradient of the average log-likelihood; multiplying by 3000 would instead estimate the gradient of the sum. Equivalently perform stochastic gradient descent on the negative log-likelihood. Batch size one makes one update per observation, and five epochs make five passes through the data, typically with a fresh random ordering on each pass.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 312 1 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Evaluate all derivatives at zero long perturbation, where , and write for the unperturbed abundance. The peak-background split changes the halo peak height toThe chain rule in the specified bias expansion therefore givesNo explicit abundance law is specified, so these derivatives are the general answer. For example, if has the Press-Schechter halo mass function dependence , then and .
For the linear long mode, the cosmological Poisson equation gives . Consequently the deterministic galaxy bias and power spectrum areHere is the linear cosmological density power spectrum; stochastic tracer noise has been omitted. This scale-dependent halo bias from local non-Gaussianity is proportional to in the specified convention.
For , plot the ratio to separate the effect from the shape of . Positive increases the ratio as decreases. Negative first suppresses it, gives a zero when , and then makes it rise again after the effective galaxy bias changes sign. The auto-power spectrum never becomes negative. A truncation is valid only when and must not be extrapolated through the zero. Within the deterministic expression, both signs give at sufficiently small . For a nearly scale-invariant primordial spectrum, in the large-scale transfer limit, so this formal asymptote is .
Scale-dependent galaxy bias
. Schematic deterministic power ratio for equal positive and negative coupling magnitudes, with . The negative-coupling cancellation scale defines ; the vertical axis is logarithmic away from a small linear region around zero.There is a convention issue in calling the specified abundance response an observed galaxy overdensity. The threshold response is naturally a linear Lagrangian halo bias. If instead denotes the physical linear Eulerian halo bias, the Lagrangian-to-Eulerian linear bias relation adds one to the density coefficient: , and . The boxed formulas follow the abundance expansion explicitly supplied in the paper. The Newtonian treatment also cannot be extrapolated beyond its physical large-scale domain without relativistic projection effects.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 344 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
For an autonomous Lagrangian, the Euler-Lagrange equation usesApply the chain rule to the Hamiltonian along an arbitrary smooth path, without assuming the unforced Euler-Lagrange equation:Consequently the energy balance for an autonomous Lagrangian isWith explicit time dependence, an additional enters . For ideal Gaussian white noise, the identity is understood through smooth-noise regularization or the Stratonovich chain rule. The original PDF correctly differentiates with respect to in ; the supplied TeX's derivative with respect to , its endpoint , and its ordinary derivative of are transcription errors.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ia Paper 2 8C a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
Along a trajectory, the chain rule givesThus is a first integral, and every trajectory lies on one of its level sets.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 1 11E a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
A map is differentiable at when there is a linear map such thatThe linear map is the Frechet derivative of at .
The multivariable chain rule states that if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , thenIndeed, write and , where and . Since ,and the last two terms are . This proves the formula.
For matrix inversion near the identity matrix,The last term is because inversion is bounded near . Therefore the inversion map is differentiable at and
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 1 11E b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
For every invertible matrix ,The maps and are linear. Differentiate this identity at and use the chain rule and part (a):Thus . Given an arbitrary increment , set to obtain the derivative of matrix inversionThis also proves differentiability at every .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 1 9F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
Let . Expanding the determinant along row shows thatwhere is the corresponding cofactor. Since a diagonal entry of the adjugate matrix is that same cofactor, the multivariable chain rule along the diagonal yieldsTherefore
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 118 1 b Solution 2026-10-03
In a holomorphic coordinate chart, has frame . Under a holomorphic coordinate change , the chain rule givesThe Jacobian is an invertible matrix of holomorphic functions. These frames therefore make the holomorphic tangent bundle.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 305 1 c Solution 2026-10-03
Write . The chain rule gives and . Using the gamma matrix relations and ,Thus the Dirac equation is invariant under parity symmetry in quantum field theory.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 328 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The Wirtinger derivative is holomorphic, since by the Laplace equation. The conformal map takes the quadrant to the complex upper half-plane. Integrating the prescribed tangential boundary derivatives, choose a common corner value and define the real boundary functionThe decaying data are bounded under the usual regularity at the corner, so . Thus its Poisson integral converges. A holomorphic function whose real part is that Poisson integral is supplied by the regularized Schwarz integral formula:For , the chain rule gives . Apply integration by parts to obtainSubstituting and gives the requested particular integral representation:Both integrals converge absolutely for an interior point of the quadrant. The Sokhotski–Plemelj formula gives on the horizontal edge and on the vertical edge, verifying the prescribed derivatives.
The printed conditions alone do not determine uniquely. The general answer adds a holomorphic function satisfyingEquivalently, write , where is holomorphic in the complex upper half-plane with real boundary values on the nonzero real axis. An antiderivative of has a harmonic real part with zero tangential boundary derivatives. For example, contributes without changing either datum. If the two edge constants differ by , the angular harmonic function contributes . The boxed expression selects the Poisson integral representative with equal edge constants; regularity and suitable growth conditions can be used to select that representative.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 341 1 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Expand about and use from the chain rule. The residual of the exact solution isThe coefficients through vanish, and the displayed fourth-order coefficient does not. Thus the multiderivative multistep method has order three.
At , its first characteristic polynomial isIts roots are and , with the unit-modulus root simple, so it satisfies the root condition for a multistep method and is zero-stable. Combining this with the defect estimate proves convergence of order three, assuming sufficiently smooth , order-three starting values, and the nearby branch of each implicit update.
More explicitly, the right-hand side is , where has a uniform local Lipschitz continuity bound for small . A bounded zero-stable impulse response and the discrete Gronwall inequality therefore control the accumulated defects by over fixed time intervals. This is convergence of a zero-stable multiderivative method, rather than a direct application of the first-derivative-only Dahlquist equivalence theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 348 2 b i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Restrict to an arbitrary line segment by defining for . The chain rule and the assumed positive semidefinite matrix condition on the Hessian matrix giveThus is non-decreasing. For , integrating on the two subintervals givesRearranging, and including the immediate endpoint cases, yieldsThis is precisely the definition of a convex function.
