Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 1 11F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
For uniform convergence to on , for every there is such that for all and all . The bound proves uniform convergence to zero, whereas its derivative is . On an interval containing zero these derivatives diverge at zero, so they cannot converge uniformly. This supplies a counterexample to differentiating a uniformly convergent sequence without additional hypotheses.
For uniform derivative convergence with an anchored value, put and . A uniform limit of continuous functions is continuous. The fundamental theorem of calculus givesThus , with error bounded byThis is uniform on bounded subintervals, and on all of if it is bounded. The fundamental theorem of calculus now gives , so is continuously differentiable. For an unbounded , no global uniform convergence of follows merely from the displayed hypotheses, but local uniform convergence and the claimed differentiability do.
For the series, use partial sums and differentiate their individual terms:For , their absolute values are at most , a summable bound. The Weierstrass M-test makes the derivative series uniformly convergent, while every partial sum is zero at . The anchored-value result therefore proves continuous differentiability on , with derivative equal to the displayed termwise derivative series.
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Fix and a sufficiently small rectangle inside . Its rectangular incrementcan be evaluated twice using the fundamental theorem of calculus, givingDivide by and let . Continuity of the mixed partial derivatives makes the two limits and . They are equal everywhere on .
Repeated interchange of adjacent partial derivatives reduces every order- derivative of a smooth function to , . Hence there are at most distinct functions. This maximum is attained by , whose listed partial derivatives are the distinct functions . The answer is , rather than the possible written orders.
For the supplied , for , whereas . It is not even continuous at the origin, so is neither differentiable nor infinitely differentiable there.
For , . Thus , proving Fréchet differentiability at the origin with derivative zero. However,including zero at the origin. Therefore and . is differentiable but not infinitely differentiable at the origin: it cannot have continuous second partial derivatives near that point.
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The shear is a smooth diffeomorphism with determinant one and sends compact sets to compact sets. Thus are locally integrable functions. On a compact time interval and compact label set , the integral is finite. The Fubini theorem, followed by a countable exhaustion of time intervals and label sets, shows that for almost every .
To transform the weak equation, choose , where and . Including a velocity cutoff in ensures the required compact support. The transport derivative of this test function is . Change variables to the characteristic labels to obtainThe fundamental test-function identity makes the bracket zero almost everywhere. Choose a countable dense family of time test functions on each bounded interval and extend by continuity; there is then a single negligible label set outside which as one-dimensional distributions.
For each remaining label, subtract the primitive . The distributional derivative of is zero, so it is a constant almost everywhere. Choose the resulting absolutely continuous representative along free characteristics, . The fundamental theorem of calculus givesThe representative qualification is essential: an arbitrary locally integrable representative can be modified on one time slice without changing the distributional equation, and would not satisfy the identity for every pair of times.
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Use unit speed and write the Cauchy data as , . For finite-energy data define the wave energy estimate quantityMultiply by and use integration by parts. With compact support or sufficient decay the boundary flux is zero, soFor general finite-energy solutions, cutoff or approximation arguments justify this identity; equivalently the local estimate below, applied in both time directions and with radii tending to infinity, gives the same equality. Arbitrary smooth data need not have finite global energy; then the global bound with an infinite right side is uninformative, while the local estimate remains useful.
If and , the fundamental theorem of calculus and the wave energy estimate further giveTogether these yield an a priori bound for on each bounded time interval. No existence assumption is proved by the estimate itself; it controls any sufficiently regular solution.
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A one-dimensional Sobolev representative is absolutely continuous. For , the fundamental theorem of calculus and Holder inequality giveThus has a representative in . The qualification about representatives matters because a Sobolev space element is an almost-everywhere equivalence class.
In two dimensions, the Sobolev fundamental theorem of calculus on lines and Fubini's theorem imply that almost every horizontal and vertical slice belongs to and has this one-dimensional Hölder continuity. The slice seminorm depends on the slice; this does not give one uniform pointwise estimate on the square. For , Morrey's inequality additionally gives a globally Hölder continuous representative of exponent . For , global continuity need not hold. For example, with a smooth cutoff around an interior point, lies in when , but is unbounded. At , the cutoff version of is unbounded while its gradient has finite squared integral, sinceThese examples distinguish Sobolev slicing and planar continuity from a false two-dimensional application of the interval exponent.
Put . A BV space is a function whose distributional derivative is a finite vector-valued Radon measure. Equivalently its total variation seminorm is finite:The BV space has norm . For , integration by parts against the compactly supported field gives . Conversely the measurable choice on nonzero gradients attains the pointwise bound. Approximating this bounded field by smooth fields, using interior cutoffs and the finite measure , justifies the supremum and givesIt is a norm of the derivative measure, rather than a pointwise derivative at jump discontinuities.
There is a genuine mismatch in the printed definition of the next functional. Its constraints on and are independent. Hence its stated supremum, denoted , separates asThe scalar supremum is , by cutoffs approaching one, and the vector supremum is the variation. For an affine image signal with , this gives , whereas the displayed square-root area would give . The intended relaxed graph-area functional instead uses the coupled pointwise constraint , givingwhere is the singular part of . Both readings have a minimizer, but their equations are different.
Here is the direct method in the calculus of variations for either reading. Let be the literal or the corrected , and define the energy on , assigning infinity elsewhere. A minimizing sequence has bounded energy by comparison with . Both , so its variation is bounded, and the fidelity bounds , hence also and . By bounded-variation compactness, a subsequence converges strongly in to , and after another subsequence almost everywhere. Fatou's lemma provesThe regularizer is a supremum of affine functionals continuous in , since the test-field divergence is bounded. It is therefore lower semicontinuous. Combining the two lower bounds proves existence of a minimizer. In fact the convex regularizer and the strictly convex squared fidelity make the minimizer unique up to null sets. This does not assert that the minimizer must belong to .
For the intended graph area, conditionally assume that the minimizer is in . For , differentiate at . The derivative of the integrand is bounded by , so dominated convergence applies. The weak equation isthat is,This is the graph-area Euler-Lagrange equation. Compactly supported variations impose no boundary condition in this statement.
For the literal printed supremum, the constant drops out and one obtains total variation denoising. Its total variation calibration form isThe distributional equation means . In particular wherever the gradient is nonzero; writing this quotient without handling zero gradients would be incomplete. Formally the one-sided derivative of isMinimality in the directions and bounds the remaining linear functional by the second integral. The Hahn-Banach theorem extends it on that zero-gradient set to a bounded vector field of magnitude at most one, furnishing and the displayed weak equation. Thus the literal definition has a nonsmooth subgradient equation, not the square-root equation above.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 5 3 1 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
For a smooth approximation, the fundamental theorem of calculus and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality giveLet be one full-measure set on which . Passing to the limit for all givesThe full-measure set is dense, and the estimate extends its representative uniquely to a -Hölder continuous function on . Its classical Hölder seminorm satisfies the same bound. Changing the original representative on a null set does not affect the essential supremum in the assertion.
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Define the second modulus of smoothness by . The Jackson kernel is even, nonnegative and has integral one. Symmetrizing its convolution therefore givesWe first establish the needed scaling rule. For the translation operator , . Squaring gives . Central and forward second differences have the same norm. For every , take and . Taking the supremum over these provesThe zero-step case is immediate.
For , the inequalities , , and implyUse the first estimate on and the second outside it. ThenAll constants are independent of and . Combining these estimates proves the Jackson operator estimateFor , two applications of the fundamental theorem of calculus give the second-difference integral formulafor . Its absolute value is at most , so .
Finally, is a trigonometric polynomial of degree : its sine ratio squared is a Fejér polynomial of degree , and squaring doubles that degree. Thus has degree at most . To bound degree- best approximation, choose , rather than using directly. Since for , the smooth-function approximation rate is
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The given relative Fisher information inequality is . Multiplying by and integrating gives relative Fisher information decay under Ornstein-Uhlenbeck flow:In particular when is finite; if necessary one starts at a positive time with finite information. It follows that .
Write . It is nonnegative and decreasing, so has a finite limit when . The printed integrability request concerns the product . Its sign is nonpositive, and the fundamental theorem of calculus givesPassing to proves time integrability of an entropy-dissipation product:Also . The zero value of will be used as supplied in (f); positivity and monotonicity alone only establish existence of the limit.
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Use the zero entropy limit supplied in this subpart. By the fundamental theorem of calculus and the entropy dissipation identity for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck flow,Apply the relative Fisher information decay estimate starting at time :Thus the requested entropy-dissipation inequality isIt is the Gaussian logarithmic Sobolev inequality along this evolution. Since , an integrating factor gives the entropy convergence rate for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck flow:For finite initial entropy, therefore converges to the stationary Gaussian density in relative entropy at rate . If desired, Pinsker's inequality also converts this to the density estimate .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ia Paper 3 9C a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A conservative vector field on is a vector field for a globally defined smooth potential of a conservative vector field . The chain rule givesso its line integral is path independent.
Green theorem states that, for a bounded planar region with piecewise smooth boundary and continuously differentiable on a neighbourhood of its closure,The boundary is positively oriented: the region lies on the left while it is traversed, so outer components run counterclockwise and hole boundaries clockwise.
For the proposed potential of a conservative vector field, the fundamental theorem of calculus and differentiation under the integral sign giveSince , the last integral equals , including negative with the usual signed-integral convention. Hence the proposed potential is global andThe fact that the vector field is defined on all of ensures both straight integration segments stay inside its domain; a hole in the domain could obstruct a global potential.
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Work in one fixed inertial frame, and take positive velocity in the rocket's direction. During , the rocket ejects the positive amount of mass . Its exhaust has inertial velocity , by the Galilean transformation of velocities. Once expelled, that material retains its velocity because it experiences no external force. The system's momentum is therefore the rocket momentum plus the sum of all these exhaust momenta:The minus sign comes from the positive expelled mass being .
Differentiate, applying the product rule to the rocket momentum and the fundamental theorem of calculus to the integral:The momentum conservation law thus gives the nonrelativistic rocket equation
The same bookkeeping for kinetic energy givesIts derivative iswhere the rocket equation cancels the first two terms. Thus kinetic energy increases during mass ejection, with when and . This does not violate conservation of energy: the increase comes from stored internal energy.
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The Volterra integration operator is injective and has dense range. Its range of the Volterra integration operator is , and its Moore–Penrose inverse of an operator is differentiation on this domain. Thus the error estimate for implicitly requires , in addition to the printed assumption. For an arbitrary function the same calculation bounds error against , but that function need not be in .
Put , and . The three stencils are forward, central finite differences, and backward on , and , respectively. All shifted evaluation points lie in . For , apply and change variables in each of the six evaluation terms. The resulting integration intervals arePair with , with , and the two middle intervals. Each pair has disjoint interiors, so almost every point is counted at most three times. This overlap multiplicity bound for piecewise difference operators provesFor the bias on the middle interval, write the central finite difference as an average of . The fundamental theorem of calculus giveswhere . Extend by zero to the real line. Young's convolution inequality bounds the middle-interval error by . Combining its squared error with the supplied outer-interval estimate gives the central-difference noise-bias boundThe triangle inequality and the operator norm estimate now giveFor , balancing noise and approximation bias minimizes this upper bound atfor sufficiently small that . Capping the parameter at supplies an admissible rule for all positive noise levels. More generally, and suffice; avoids needing or dividing by .
To prove convergence for every admissible datum, not just data, let with and extend by zero. Each stencil is a forward, centred or backward average of . Translation continuity in Lp makes each averaged difference from tend to zero in . Restricting those three bounds to their respective intervals proves . The noise-bias decomposition for linear regularization, with , finishes the convergent regularization of an inverse problem.
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Let be the supremum of all lower Darboux sums and the infimum of all upper Darboux sums. The assumed comparison of arbitrary lower and upper sums gives . For the partition supplied for a given ,Since this holds for every positive , . Thus the Riemann integrability criterion gives
If is continuous on , the Heine-Cantor theorem makes it uniformly continuous. Given , choose so that intervals of length below have oscillation below . A partition of mesh below then satisfiesproving that Continuous functions are Riemann integrable.
For the function defined using , choose with . Given , choose so small that . On , the function is continuous and therefore has a partition whose upper-minus-lower sum is below . Adding the interval contributes at most , regardless of the value . Hence the full Darboux-sum difference is below , and
Finally, for any partition , the mean value theorem supplies such thatSumming telescopes toa Riemann sum for the Riemann-integrable function . Equivalently, every lower derivative sum is at most this telescoping value and every upper derivative sum is at least it. Taking the common upper and lower Darboux integrals proves the fundamental theorem of calculus conclusion
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Set . ThenThe extreme value theorem gives a minimum of on . If it occurs in , the two-sided difference quotient gives . If it occurs at , either or a negative right derivative contradicts minimality; the endpoint is analogous. Hence some satisfiesThis proves the Darboux theorem for derivatives in the stated case without assuming that is continuous.
Because a differentiable function is continuous, defineThe fundamental theorem of calculus gives . At the endpoints,whileApplying the result just proved to yields with
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Put , the uniform bound on the supremum norm of the gradient. The fundamental theorem of calculus on a line segment, together with the inner product inequality , givesThus is Lipschitz continuous with respect to the L1 norm. The Gaussian random variables comprising and have finite exponential moments of their absolute values. More explicitly, for , Hölder's inequality gives . Consequently and every exponential expression below are finite, including when the covariance matrix is singular.
Use the convex function . Since is an independent copy of , Jensen inequality for the conditional expectation givesFor , define the Gaussian rotation of independent copiesWriting , both rotated covariance matrices are and their cross-covariance is zero. The pair has a centered multivariate normal distribution, so its components are independent and has the same probability law as . This calculation uses no inverse of and therefore also proves the assertion for degenerate multivariate normal distributions.
The path runs from to . The chain rule and the fundamental theorem of calculus give the pathwise identityApply Jensen inequality to the uniform probability measure on . Then use Tonelli theorem and the Gaussian rotation of independent copies to obtainThis proves the Gaussian rotation interpolation inequality in the required form:The stated almost-sure domination now gives an exponential moment of an absolute standard normal variable bound. If , completing the square in the standard normal density yieldswhere is the standard normal distribution function. Hence Markov inequality gives, for every ,The exponent is minimized at . Therefore the resulting Gaussian tail bound isNo independence of from or is needed: only the given almost-sure domination is used.
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Construct a mean-square derivative of a Gaussian process on the original probability space before choosing its continuous modification. The real covariance function satisfies , because covariance is symmetric. Three-times differentiability implies that is continuous everywhere and differentiable at zero. Since is an even function,This uses differentiability of at zero, not a bound on throughout a neighborhood.
Let for . Twice applying the fundamental theorem of calculus to the covariance function givesOriented integrals make this identity valid for negative as well as positive . For a fixed , the right side tends to as . In particular,By completeness of L2 space, the mean-square derivative of a Gaussian processexists. Finite vectors consisting of values of and have a centered multivariate normal distribution: approximate the coordinates by difference quotients and use mean-square convergence and characteristic functions. Thus is a centered Gaussian process jointly constructed with , withIn particular , and is a positive-semidefinite kernel because it is an actual covariance function. Merely constructing an unrelated Gaussian process with that covariance function would not yet construct a modification of a stochastic process of .
The increment variance of isFor small , differentiability of at zero bounds this by . For the remaining distances in , continuity of enlarges to give the same bound. The fourth moment of a centered normal distribution is three times its variance squared, soThe one-dimensional Kolmogorov continuity theorem states that with gives a continuous modification, with sample-path Hölder continuity of every order less than . Apply it here with . We obtain a continuous modification on . On its null exceptional event, set the entire path equal to zero.
Define, on this same probability space,The path integral exists because its integrand is a continuous function. It agrees in L2 space with the integral of : Riemann sums converge in L2 space because is mean-square continuous; sums of have the same values almost surely at each finite collection of mesh points and converge pathwise to the integral. These two limits therefore agree almost surely for each fixed . Equivalently, the integral is the Bochner integral of the L2 space-valued map .
To verify the modification of a stochastic process property directly, put and . The preceding covariance identities and the fundamental theorem of calculus giveTherefore and almost surely for every fixed . This is also the mean-square fundamental theorem of calculus in this stationary setting. If a version on all of is desired, retain the original outside ; equality at every fixed parameter still holds.
The ordinary fundamental theorem of calculus now gives the simultaneous pathwise conclusionThus the requested differentiable modification of a stationary Gaussian process exists. Integrability of is compatible with the hypotheses but is unnecessary for this direct argument. It also avoids any assumption that a third absolute moment of a spectral density follows from three-times differentiability.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 326 1 3 c Solution 2026-10-06
The range of the Volterra integration operator is , using the representative of a Sobolev space element that is an absolutely continuous function. Indeed has weak derivative and zero initial trace; conversely the fundamental theorem of calculus reconstructs such a from its derivative. This range contains smooth compactly supported functions and is dense in .
The given step is in , and its value at the single midpoint is immaterial. It cannot be the image of an function: such an image is continuous, whereas no continuous representative agrees almost everywhere with zero on the left half and one on the right half. Its distributional derivative is a Dirac delta distribution, not an function. ThusFor a direct approximation, replace the jump by a linear ramp of width centered at . Each ramp starts at zero and has an derivative, so lies in the range, while its squared error is . Its derivative norm is , illustrating unstable differentiation.
The supplied SVD gives , or more simply . Since but , the Moore–Penrose inverse is discontinuous. Its domain is the dense, nonclosed range above, and there it is the weak derivative.
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The Dirichlet Laplacian eigenfunctions and positive Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalues on the interval of length two areA Sturm-Liouville eigenfunction expansion gives , with . Thus all normal modes oscillate precisely when .
To justify a spatially uniform bound for arbitrary appropriate data, assume the usual wave equation energy class and , or smoother compatible data. The energy method conservesThe sharp Poincaré inequality is . For , this makes coercive with constant ; for , coercivity is immediate. The one-dimensional Sobolev representative satisfies by the fundamental theorem of calculus and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Hence the conserved energy bounds uniformly in both variables.
At , the smooth solution is unbounded. At , is unbounded. ThereforeThe bound depends on the initial data; it is not a single bound for all arbitrarily rescaled solutions. The energy-class hypothesis supplies pointwise meaning and excludes undefined rough-data interpretations.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ia Paper 1 12D b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The fundamental theorem of calculus says first that if is continuous on and , then . Indeed,whose absolute value tends to zero by continuity. Consequently, if is differentiable with continuous derivative, applying the first part to shows that has zero derivative and is constant. Hence
A derivative need not be Riemann integrable. Define and for . Then is differentiable at zero with , while for ,which is unbounded near zero. Since every Riemann-integrable function on a compact interval is bounded, need not be Riemann integrable.
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For a coordinate curve , the length between and iswhere is a coefficient of the first fundamental form. Thus makes the two -directed sides of every coordinate rectangle equally long. Similarly,so makes the two -directed sides equally long.
Conversely, suppose every pair of opposite sides has equal length. Fix . Equality of the first pair for every interval givesThe fundamental theorem of calculus implies that the continuous integrand vanishes, so is independent of . The same argument shows that is independent of . Hence the stated equal-length property is equivalent to .