Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 44 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Fix the current sign convention by defining the localized variation as . For a first-derivative Lagrangian invariant without a boundary term under constant parameters, this means ; include the usual improvement term if the constant variation is a total derivative. On solutions, arbitrary compactly supported parameters imply . The Noether charge is and is conserved if the spatial flux vanishes. This sign convention matches the printed Ward identity; reversing the current also reverses the corresponding generator convention.
Assume an invariant regulated functional measure, invariant vacuum boundary conditions and no quantum anomaly. Changing variables in the normalized path integral gives . Integration by parts then yieldsFor a product of scalar fields, the local Ward identity contact terms areAway from the insertions this is current conservation. Time-ordering or the distributional functional identity supplies the contact terms.
For the gauge theory write and use the left-acting BRST differential , with . It obeys the graded Leibniz rule andAssume the structure constants satisfy the Jacobi identity and the dot product is invariant; antisymmetry alone would not be enough. Since and are odd, their Lie brackets are symmetric in these two arguments. ConsequentlyAlso . The graded Jacobi identity gives , so ; the other three fields have zero second variation immediately. For independent odd parameters, . These are off-shell BRST nilpotence identities because the Nakanishi-Lautrup field is retained.
The Yang-Mills theory variation is proportional to . The gauge-fixing variation is , while the ghost variation is its negative; the term does not vary. Equivalently these terms are for the gauge-fixing fermion . BRST nilpotence makes this expression invariant. Ghost-number scaling also leaves every term invariant: the ghost and antighost factors carry opposite weights.
Here are the two explicit currents in the same sign convention as the Ward identity. Localizing the even ghost parameter gives coefficient . Localizing the odd parameter, keeping it on the left, gives coefficientThe last sign comes from moving the odd parameter through the odd antighost derivative. Since the current was defined as minus this coefficient,These are the ghost-number Noether current and the BRST current in derivative-b gauge fixing. If the opposite Noether sign is used, both displayed currents acquire an overall minus sign. Integrating the gauge-fixing term by parts changes the Noether representative by the associated boundary improvement; mixing the two Lagrangian conventions without that improvement gives incorrect signs.
With no BRST anomaly, the conserved odd BRST charge has . The BRST cohomology identifies closed states modulo exact states . Nilpotence puts every exact state in the closed space. In the usual indefinite gauge-fixed state space, a Hermitian BRST charge makes exact states orthogonal to closed states; the standard no-ghost/positivity assumptions then give a physical inner product on the quotient. The physical sector is its ghost-number-zero component,The ghost number assigns to , to and zero to gauge and auxiliary fields. Gauge-invariant observables and the chosen vacuum have ghost number zero; unphysical ghost excitations are removed in BRST pairs. Thus physical representatives are expected to satisfy . This zero-grading selection is part of the physical-state prescription, not a consequence of nilpotence alone.
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For a Young tableau , let permute the entries within its rows and within its columns. We use the Young symmetrizer conventionReversing the order gives another usual realization of the same irreducible polynomial module. On the tensor power , the actions areThey commute because applying to every factor commutes with permuting the factors.
We state the permitted combinatorial input explicitly. A Young symmetrizer satisfies , where is the nonzero hook product of a partition. Thus is a primitive idempotent. The standard-tableau decomposition of the right regular module is . Tensor this right-module direct sum with the left module . The map sending to is an isomorphism, with inverse . Therefore the Young-symmetrizer tensor decomposition isThis is a direct sum of -modules; individual summands need not be -invariant.
We also state the allowed Schur algebra result, namely Schur–Weyl duality: the two actions are mutual commutants, andwhere the are pairwise nonisomorphic irreducible homogeneous polynomial representations of degree . We also use the standard Schur algebra equivalence between its modules and homogeneous degree- polynomial representations, so these exhaust the irreducibles in that category. A primitive idempotent has one-dimensional image on and zero image on the other simple factors, so . This identifies the requested irreducibles. They classify the polynomial degree- representations in this tensor power, not all rational representations of every degree.
The length bound for a Schur module is if and only if . A column of length greater than antisymmetrizes more than vectors and gives zero. Conversely, for , fill every tensor position in row with the th basis vector of . Row symmetrization multiplies it by , and column antisymmetrization is nonzero because the vectors within each column are distinct basis vectors.
A rational representation of an algebraic group is a regular morphism into the general linear group of its representation space. For , its matrix entries belong to ; rational here permits determinant denominators but not arbitrary poles on . A one-dimensional rational character of is a Laurent polynomial with and . Comparing Laurent coefficients shows that just one monomial occurs and its coefficient is , hence for .
Restrict a one-dimensional rational character of to its diagonal torus. The same argument in several variables gives . Conjugation by permutation matrices makes all equal. On every diagonalizable invertible matrix it consequently agrees with . The allowed Zariski-density statement, and equality of regular functions on a dense subset, giveThese are the one-dimensional rational characters of the general linear group.
For complete reducibility of rational GL and SL representations, use the compact-group averaging argument. Average any positive definite Hermitian inner product over using normalized Haar measure. The orthogonal complement of an invariant subspace is then -invariant. Differentiating makes it invariant under and therefore under its complex span . The elementary unipotent matrices generate , so the complement is -invariant. This proves complete reducibility. Averaging over similarly gives complete reducibility for rational representations.
Here is an explicit rational extension from SL to GL. Decompose the representation space by the finite scalar center of into subspaces on which acts as , with and . These subspaces are invariant. For , choose with , set , and defineChanging to changes to , so the two factors cancel. It is a homomorphism, since scalar roots multiply up to the same harmless factor, and it restricts to on .
It is rational as well. Every matrix coefficient of has a polynomial representative on . Averaging that representative over the finite scalar center selects its homogeneous parts with . Substitution in the extension gives , a regular function on . Each -invariant subspace decomposes into its parts, and the extension acts on each part by a scalar times an action. Thus these subspaces are also invariant under the chosen extension. Consequently is irreducible if and only if this is irreducible. For , is trivial and the trivial extension supplies the same conclusion.
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Use the weighted Hilbert structure of velocity-reset relaxation, with inner product and norm . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThus is an absolutely convergent integral and a bounded linear functional. Since , the normalized velocity-reset collision operator obeysThis establishes boundedness. The subsequent orthogonal decomposition improves the operator norm to exactly one.
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The weighted inner product satisfies . ThereforeThe identity operator and are linear, bounded and self-adjoint, hence so is . Directly, ; equality holds at . Thus .
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Interpret as the velocity operator appearing in the equation and in the stated quadratic-form hypothesis. Let . Smoothness turns the distributional equation into the usual equation. Multiply it by and integrate; for complex functions use the real part of the inner product. Spatial integration by parts gives , while the coercivity hypothesis at each givesThus is nonincreasing. The coercive energy estimate for kinetic transport isNo division by is required, so the zero solution causes no exception. Compact spatial support, or sufficient decay to eliminate the boundary flux, is enough; compact support in time is unnecessary.
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Take and use primes for spatial derivatives. Two integration by parts operations in the first variation of the elastic filament's bending energy giveThus the Euler-Lagrange equation is , and the fluctuation differential operator is . In the L2 space inner product, its boundary form isThe conjugate endpoint trace pairs are and . Requiring one member of each pair to vanish gives the four standard self-adjoint endpoint conditions for filament bending, applied at both ends:
- Free-free: . Both the bending torque and the transverse endpoint force vanish; position and slope can vary.
- Clamped-clamped: . Position and slope are fixed, with reaction forces and torques permitted. These are clamped boundary conditions.
- Hinged-hinged: . Position is fixed, but the endpoint rotates without bending torque.
- Torqued-torqued: . Slope is fixed by an endpoint torque, while translation is free and transverse force vanishes. The torque is a reaction, not an additional condition setting to zero.
Each pair annihilates the boundary form for all in the domain. Conversely, the remaining two endpoint traces can be chosen freely: requiring the boundary form to vanish against every such forces an adjoint-domain function to satisfy the same two conditions. This proves self-adjointness, rather than just formal symmetry, on the corresponding fourth-order Sobolev space domain.
The count four concerns these elementary homogeneous choices. Identical-end boundary conditions do not restrict all self-adjoint operators to these four possibilities. For example, , at both ends, with any fixed real , also annihilates the boundary form: the remaining expression is . This Robin boundary condition supplies a continuous family beyond the four listed pairs.
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Use normalized Fourier coefficients and the inner productThe functions are orthonormal. Hence the Fourier partial sum is the orthogonal projection onto the trigonometric polynomials of degree at most . For any such polynomial , orthogonality givesso .
Given , the permitted density result supplies a trigonometric polynomial with . Once includes its degree,Therefore the Fourier partial sums converge to in the normalized norm, giving exactly the stated mean-square limit.
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A four-vector is a collection of four components that transforms by the same Lorentz transformation as . Use the metric signature . The Lorentzian inner product isA nonzero four-vector is a timelike vector, null vector or spacelike vector according as is negative, zero or positive. Reversing the metric signature reverses the signs used to name these three classes, without changing their geometric meaning.
For a frame moving at speed along the positive axis, write and use the Lorentz factor . The component Lorentz transformation isExpanding the first two squares givesThe other two components are unchanged, so . Consequently a timelike vector remains timelike under a Lorentz transformation.
For a nonzero null vector, and . Set and . Then and . If the zero four-vector is included among null vectors, take and any unit vector.
For two future-pointing null vectors, write and with . The sum of future-pointing null vectors satisfiesbecause the ordinary inner product of two unit vectors is at most one. The sum is null if their spatial directions coincide, and timelike otherwise. Its positive time component makes the sum nonzero and future-pointing.
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Linearity of the integral in each argument gives a bilinear form, and gives symmetry. Also . If a polynomial is nonzero somewhere on this interval, continuity makes strictly positive on a smaller interval, so the integral is positive. A polynomial vanishing on the whole interval is the zero polynomial. Thus the form is positive-definite and is an inner product.
Apply the Gram-Schmidt process to . Odd functions have zero integral, so is already orthogonal to , and the third orthogonal polynomial is . Their squared norms areTherefore an orthonormal basis isThese are the first three normalized Legendre polynomials. Their distinct degrees also prove that they span the three-dimensional vector space.
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A fiber metric on a real vector bundle is a smoothly varying positive-definite inner product on each fiber. Choose a trivializing open cover and a smooth partition of unity subordinate to it. The partition theorem gives nonnegative functions summing to one, a locally finite family of subsets of supports, and ; the usual Hausdorff second-countable smooth manifold hypotheses ensure this theorem applies. Transfer the Euclidean inner product to each local vector bundle trivialization, obtaining , and setEach weighted term extends smoothly by zero outside , and local finiteness makes the sum smooth in every vector bundle trivialization. At each some weight is positive, so for every nonzero . This proves existence of a fiber metric, with no orientability or triviality assumption.
A vector bundle morphism covering the identity is a smooth map that preserves base points and is a linear map on each fiber. Its induced map on the module of smooth sections is , and is -linear. We prove the converse by constructing bundle morphisms from maps of smooth sections.
First the given map is local. If a global section vanishes on a neighborhood of , take a smooth bump function supported there with near . Then , so , and hence . Thus sections agreeing near have images agreeing at .
Choose a local frame on , and a bump function equal to one on a smaller neighborhood of and supported in . Multiplying the frame by that bump and extending by zero gives global smooth sections whose restrictions to are the frame. If , write on . A second bump extends each to a global smooth function agreeing near . By locality and -linearity,Every fiber vector is the value of a global smooth section, by the same bumped-frame construction. Define for any such section. The just-proved vanishing statement makes this well-defined. The maps are linear maps, and locally their matrix columns are the smooth sections in a frame of . Thus is smooth, is a vector bundle morphism, and satisfies . Fiberwise evaluation also proves uniqueness.
Finally apply the fiber metric construction to the tangent bundle. A Riemannian metric defines the musical isomorphismPositive definiteness makes it a fiberwise bijection; its inverse is smooth because inverse metric matrices vary smoothly. Hence and are isomorphic as real smooth vector bundles on every such manifold. The isomorphism depends on the chosen metric and is not canonical.
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Use the given orientation throughout, and the usual convention that the manifold has no boundary. In an oriented manifold chart the metric volume form isIf is another oriented chart and , then , so because . This is exactly the transformation of the top exterior product. The formulas therefore agree on overlaps and define a smooth positive volume form. Equivalently it takes value one on any positively oriented orthonormal tangent frame.
The metric induces an inner product on -forms by making the increasing exterior products of an orthonormal coframe orthonormal. The Hodge star operator is the unique pointwise linear map satisfyingFor an increasing multi-index , is the complementary wedge with the sign making . Swapping the blocks of and factors introduces . ThereforeIn particular and .
For compactly supported smooth , the -form has compact support. Stokes theorem and the graded Leibniz rule giveA top form equals . Consequently this Hodge integration by parts for one-forms becomes exactlyCompact support of is enough; need not itself have compact support.
Define the codifferential on -forms by and the Hodge Laplacian by . A harmonic differential form is a smooth form in . On functions this is the positive Laplace-Beltrami operator, . This sign convention is required by the product identity; it is the negative of the convention also commonly used for the Laplace-Beltrami operator.
For a -form , the square of the Hodge star operator and the codifferential formula giveApplying the second formula to and the first to givesThus Hodge star commutes with the Hodge Laplacian. Since is invertible, is harmonic if and only if is harmonic. This holds without compactness; we have not used the generally false noncompact implication that a harmonic form must be closed and coclosed.
For a smooth function and one-form , the same graded Leibniz rule gives . Apply this to to obtain the product rule for the positive Laplace-Beltrami operator
The Hodge decomposition theorem states that on a compact oriented boundaryless Riemannian manifold, smooth forms have the -orthogonal decompositionand each de Rham cohomology class has a unique harmonic differential form representative. To spell out the last conclusion, a harmonic form is closed and coclosed because . If a closed form decomposes as , then ; integration by parts gives . Thus it represents . A harmonic exact form has zero norm by adjointness, proving uniqueness. The analytic existence of the decomposition is the stated Hodge decomposition theorem.
Now let be compact, connected and oriented. A harmonic function satisfies , so it is constant. The Hodge star operator identifies with , hence . A Riemannian metric exists by Question 3 even if none was initially chosen. Using the harmonic representative of each class, we obtain the top de Rham cohomology of a compact connected oriented manifoldThe class is nonzero also directly from Stokes theorem, since while every exact top form has zero integral. Boundarylessness matters: a compact interval has zero first de Rham cohomology.
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Write , the Lefschetz operator of a Kähler manifold. The metric and volume form define the inner product on smooth complex forms, and is its formal adjoint. Similarly, is the formal adjoint of the Dolbeault operator, characterized by . The Dolbeault Laplacian isOn the compact manifold without boundary, integration by parts givesIf the Laplacian vanishes, both terms are zero. Conversely, if both operators annihilate , the defining formula annihilates it. Thus harmonicity is equivalent to being both -closed and -closed.
Because is closed and has type , and . The supplied identity from the Kähler identities gives . With ordinary commutators for the even-degree operator ,The last identity follows from . This also proves that the Lefschetz operator preserves harmonic forms.
For the cohomology map one can work directly with forms: , since has even degree. It takes closed forms to closed forms and exact forms to exact forms. Therefore the th power of inducesThe bidegree is , including the zero groups outside the dimension range. No isomorphism claim is needed here.
Finally put , so . LetBoth Kähler forms are -closed, so . For a closed representative ,This primitive has type ; the degree-one sign produces no additional term because is closed. HenceThis is the dependence of Lefschetz maps on the Dolbeault class.
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Multiplying the matrices gives the Heisenberg group lawDifferentiating at the identity gives all strictly upper-triangular matrices. With , and , the commutator givesThis is the Heisenberg Lie algebra.
The right Maurer-Cartan form isThus the right-invariant coframe of the real Heisenberg group is , , . Under a right translation,we have , , and . All three right-invariant differential forms are preserved.
Every right-invariant Riemannian metric is determined by an arbitrary inner product at the identity. In this coframe its most general expression isEquivalently,Products here are symmetric products. If a pseudo-Riemannian metric tensor is intended, replace positive definiteness by nondegeneracy. Since every right translation preserves the coframe, it is an isometry. The action is faithful, and is a group homomorphism, embedding a copy of into the isometry group.
The one-parameter right translations produce the Killing frame for a right-invariant Heisenberg metric:Their flows are respectively , and . Each preserves , and their Lie brackets of vector fields are , with the other two zero. This explicitly realizes the Heisenberg Lie algebra. These Killing vector fields are left-invariant vector fields; the vector fields dual to the right-invariant coframe are instead , and should not be substituted for these generators.
For the diagonal case, putThe Kaluza-Klein decomposition along a Killing field uses . Completing the square in gives the Heisenberg metric Kaluza-Klein reduction:These depend only on the quotient coordinates and satisfy . For a diagonal indefinite metric tensor, the same expressions hold wherever ; a null Killing vector field cannot be treated with this completed-square decomposition.
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The printed assertion about all locally square-integrable functions is false. The proposed average is not even finite for every such function: for ,It also fails positive definiteness. The nonzero function hasConsequently this formula cannot define an inner product, much less a Hilbert space, on .
A precise version of the intended nonseparability argument uses the mean-square completion of trigonometric polynomials. Start with the real vector space of finite linear combinations of , , and , with arbitrary . Product-to-sum identities show that all the proposed cross averages exist. Distinct frequencies are orthogonal, each sine and cosine has squared norm one, and the constant function has squared norm two. Thus, after collecting equal frequencies,This is positive definite on . Its Hilbert space completion contains the uncountable orthonormal set . The distance between two distinct members is . Their open balls of radius are pairwise disjoint, and a dense subset must meet each one. A countable dense subset is therefore impossible: this corrected completed space is nonseparable. Completion is an essential additional construction; it does not validate the printed claim about all of .
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The Riesz representation theorem states that every bounded linear functional on a real or complex Hilbert space is represented by a unique :For the complex case take the inner product to be linear in its first argument.
If , choose . Otherwise its kernel is a closed linear subspace. Choose with and let , using the orthogonal projection. Then , , and . For every ,Therefore take in the real case, and in the complex case. The conjugate in the latter formula compensates for conjugate linearity in the second argument.
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives , and evaluation at when gives equality of the norms. If two vectors represent , their difference is orthogonal to every vector, including itself, hence zero. This proves all assertions of the Riesz representation theorem.
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Work in the mean-zero Sobolev spaceThe integral is a continuous functional on , so is closed. The Neumann-Poincare inequality shows that is equivalent to the usual norm on , making a complete inner product there.
For the functional satisfiesThe Riesz representation theorem, or the Lax-Milgram theorem, gives a unique with for all . To recover every test, write . The constant contributes zero to and contributes to . Thus the same equality holds for all .
A weak solution exists whenever ; fixing its average to zero makes it unique. Moreover and the Neumann-Poincare inequality also controls .
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For , two integrations by parts give the clamped Hessian identityBy density it remains valid on . Each has zero integral, first for compactly supported test functions and then by convergence. Applying the Neumann-Poincare inequality to each givesThe zero-boundary Poincare inequality also gives . Hence, using a full-Hessian equivalent norm,Thus is an inner product whose norm is equivalent to the complete norm on the clamped second-order Sobolev space. The functional is bounded for this norm by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the displayed bound. Apply the Riesz representation theorem, or the Lax-Milgram theorem, to get a unique representing . The clamped biharmonic problem has a unique weak solution for every , with and no zero-integral compatibility condition.
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Let , and . Since , the pressure and mass density perturbations are and . Integrating the pressure-gradient term by parts in the mass density-weighted inner product givesThe boundary term vanishes for regular admissible displacements because vanish there and . Completing the pressure square giveswhereThis effective-potential stratification coefficient is real. All coefficients of the bilinear form are real, so : the operator is symmetric on the stated boundary domain, giving the usual self-adjoint realization of the stellar normal-mode problem.
Set and use . The Cowling energy principle for a rotating barotropic star isThe Rayleigh quotient tests stability. If for every admissible displacement, no mode has , so there is no exponentially growing mode. If an admissible trial displacement has , the Rayleigh-Ritz variational principle puts negative spectrum below zero; in the usual discrete stellar mode problem this gives a mode with , . Equality allows neutral modes, rather than establishing strictly positive frequencies. A locally negative coefficient alone is not a complete instability proof: a trial function must also control the pressure and other positive terms.
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In an ontological model of a quantum system, a preparation of gives a probability distribution over a physical state . A fixed quantum measurement has response probabilities with , reproducing the Born rule after averaging over . The PBR theorem says that, assuming preparation independence and the quantum predictions, distributions for distinct pure states cannot overlap with positive probability. Thus the quantum state is determined by the physical state in the psi-ontic model sense.
Preparation independence says that separately prepared systems have independent physical states: a product preparation is represented by the product of their individual ontic distributions. This is an assumption about the underlying physical states, not merely a statement that experimental preparation choices are independent. The excluded psi-epistemic model hypothesis is that the same physical state can occur with positive probability for two different pure-state preparations. The theorem neither excludes additional hidden variables nor claims that every interpretation which speaks of information is ruled out without these assumptions.
For the two given qubit preparations, consider the following PBR exclusion measurement for zero and plus, written in the ordered basis :Direct inner products show that these four vectors are an orthonormal basis. Each labelled vector is orthogonal to the correspondingly labelled product preparation, so the associated projective measurement satisfiesThis is an example of antidistinguishable quantum states: every outcome excludes one possible preparation, although the preparations cannot be perfectly distinguished.
To prove the contradiction without requiring deterministic quantum measurement responses, choose a common dominating measure for and write their densities . If they overlap, has mass . By preparation independence, every one of the four product densities dominates . Its total mass is . The zero Born rule probability for outcome implies that its nonnegative response vanishes almost everywhere for its matching preparation, hence also under this common product measure. All four responses would then vanish on a set of positive measure, contradicting their sum being one. Therefore and are mutually singular.
For the second pair, group the independent preparations into two blocks of . Define . The tensor-power reduction of PBR overlap givesEach block therefore has an effective two-dimensional Hilbert space. Explicitly,are orthonormal and . Embed the four-vector exclusion basis above into the tensor product of these two block spaces. To obtain a complete quantum measurement on all qubits, add the orthogonal complement of that four-dimensional subspace to one of its four projectors. All four allowed preparations lie in the subspace, so the four forbidden probabilities remain zero.
If the single-copy preparation distributions overlap with common mass , their -fold products all dominate the common measure of mass . The same zero-response contradiction now applies to the four block preparations. ThusThe argument is exact for the ideal devices specified in the question; no finite experimental resolution or noisy overlap bound is assumed.