Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 4 23H d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Put with its usual Hilbert space inner product, and defineThe Cauchy-Schwarz inequality shows that this is a bounded bilinear form. For , Young inequality givesand thereforeBecause , this is a coercive bilinear form.
The map is a bounded linear functional on . By the Riesz representation theorem, it equals for some . Applying part (b) produces one and only one such thatThis is precisely the weak formulation of the stated Dirichlet problem, obtained by integration by parts in the Laplace operator term. Thus is its unique weak solution; this is the constant-drift massive-Laplacian Dirichlet problem.