This Hilbert space has norm . Completeness follows from completeness of H1 space and closedness of the multiplication operator . Smooth cutoffs followed by convolution with a mollifier show that smooth compactly supported functions are dense. The space is the natural energy domain of the dimensionless quantum harmonic oscillator, whereas the operator domain additionally requires and to lie in L2 space.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 105 2 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Work with real-valued functions. The screened sine-Gordon energy is well defined: , and is integrable by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. It is coercive, becauseA minimizing sequence is bounded in the Hilbert space . Weak sequential compactness of bounded sequences in a reflexive Banach space supplies a weakly convergent subsequence. The squared H1 space norm is weakly lower semicontinuous, the source pairing is weakly continuous, and the nonlinear term is covered by local Sobolev compactness gives lower semicontinuity of a nonnegative integral. The direct method in the calculus of variations therefore gives a minimizer .
Taking its first variation in any givesThus the Euler-Lagrange equation isas a weak solution, equivalently in distributions when tested against smooth compactly supported functions. The derivative of the nonlinear term is justified by and the second-order remainder bound .
Now , so the supplied elliptic regularity estimate puts in . Applying the Sobolev inequality to and each first weak derivative gives . Morrey's inequality and uniformly continuous integrable functions vanish at infinity prove that its continuous representative tends to zero.
The final printed supremum estimate is false in general. The maximum bound for a monotone reaction term involves , which is odd and strictly increasing: , and its zeros are isolated. If , a positive maximum of satisfies ; apply the same argument to . The valid general estimate isThe bound by is valid if , but can be smaller than for larger positive .
For an explicit failure of the source-size bound for the screened sine-Gordon equation, take , , and . These are smooth functions in the required spaces. With ,Hence . Moreover has , so the energy is convex and this critical point is a minimizer. The example therefore satisfies even the minimizing and hypotheses of the printed claim.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 105 3 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
A contraction semigroup on a Banach space consists of bounded linear operators with , , , and as for each . Its infinitesimal generator of a semigroup isFor density, Yosida averaging of a semigroup gives . Taking the difference quotient of this Bochner integral shows that and . Strong continuity gives , so is dense.
For closedness, the semigroup restricted to its generator domain satisfiesIf and , pass to the limit in this identity. After dividing by , strong continuity gives . Hence and . This proves generator of a strongly continuous semigroup is closed and densely defined.
The contraction form of the Hille-Yosida theorem states that a linear operator generates a contraction semigroup if and only if it is densely defined and closed, every real lies in its resolvent set, andHere the bound implies the others by taking powers of the same bounded resolvent.
The H1 space is with weak derivative and squared norm . The displayed weighted space is the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator form domain, with inner productIf is Cauchy in , it converges in to , and converges in L2 space to some . On each bounded interval, multiplication by is bounded, so there. Thus and convergence holds in , proving completeness and the Hilbert space property. Equivalently this is closedness of the multiplication operator by .
For the Sobolev characterization by bounded difference quotients, if thenThe last assertion uses continuity of translation of a function in L2 space. Conversely, if and the quotients are uniformly bounded for , take a weakly convergent subsequence as . For every test function ,The weak limit is therefore the weak derivative . This proves the characterization.