Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 105 2 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
A fixed smooth choice already gives a counterexample. Select nonzero smooth functions and with product support compactly contained in a small box inside the shell. LetThen has zero boundary trace and is a classical, hence weak, solution. The norms of are bounded independently of . On the other hand,The squared norm of tends to , by the oscillatory integral identity for . The other term has bounded norm, so grows at least proportionally to . ThereforeThis failure of a coercive Dirichlet estimate under degeneracy loses control in the third direction; it does not rely on varying with the sequence.