Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 67 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use negative-exponential spatial Fourier transforms and finite-time spectral boundary transforms:Write and . Integrate the local relation first over and then over time. The left and right endpoint fluxes have opposite signs, giving the finite-interval Airy global relationAll these spatial and temporal integral transforms are entire functions of for sufficiently smooth data on the finite intervals. Put and , . The dispersion relation obeys ; hence the same global relation holds at all three . In particular, the missing traces satisfy the concrete linear systemwhere, with a common upper time limit ,The finite-time spectral boundary transforms are invariant under these rotations because their time kernel depends only on . The coefficients multiplying them are not invariant; these differences make the three equations useful for eliminating the missing boundary traces.