Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 107 2 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Write the flux asAfter expanding the divergence, the principal symbol of a partial differential equation along a candidate solution is determined byOnly the symmetric part contributes to . The problem is elliptic along when for every , and it is strictly elliptic where this quantity is positive for every nonzero . It is uniformly elliptic on a set when constants , independent of the point, satisfyThese definitions separate pointwise positive definiteness from a quantitative lower and upper bound; a degenerate elliptic operator may lose strict ellipticity at some jets.