Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 69 1 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Invert the two-dimensional Fourier transform from part (c):In polar coordinates, the angular integral is , where is a Bessel function of the first kind. The Fourier-Hankel normalization for an isotropic spectrum therefore yieldsThis Hankel inversion of a rotation-measure correlation recovers the scalar spectral tensor coefficient. To obtain the shell-integrated magnetic energy spectrum, take the trace of the three-dimensional tensor:With magnetic energy density in Gaussian units, the one-dimensional convention gives . A spectrum normalized instead to has coefficient ; the physical normalization must be stated.