Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ia Paper 4 6D d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For each positive integer , consider the threshold set . If it were infinite, one could choose recursively a sequence of distinct elements from it. Every arithmetic average of that sequence would be at least , contradicting the assumed limit zero. Hence every is a finite set.
Every positive real number exceeds for some , by the Archimedean property. ThereforeA countable union of countable sets is countable, so . In fact, under the stipulated infinitude, is a countably infinite set. Positivity matters: it ensures that these thresholds cover . This is countability from vanishing averages of distinct sequences; ordinary Cesaro convergence of a sequence of one chosen enumeration would not suffice to control the whole set.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 4 1F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For a basis of the real vector space , the Gram-Schmidt process constructs an orthonormal basis successively:The inner product makes orthogonal to all earlier . Moreover , since otherwise would be a linear combination of its predecessors, contrary to linear independence. Induction gives . Starting with a basis of a linear subspace and extending it to a basis of gives the same construction with the first vectors spanning .
The orthogonal complement is . For every , set . Then and . If , then , so by definiteness of the inner product. Thus the direct sum isThis also covers and .
For the polynomial space, the form is immediately a symmetric bilinear form, and . A nonzero polynomial of degree of a polynomial at most two cannot have three distinct roots of a polynomial, so this form is an inner product for . For , the nonzero polynomial has . Therefore, among the stipulated positive integers,
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 4 5A ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
This subpart is also present in the original PDF but missing from the local TeX. Put and . Multiply the Legendre differential equation for by , multiply the equation for by , and subtract. The product rule givesIntegrating from to , the boundary term vanishes: , and the Legendre polynomials and their derivatives are finite there. For distinct nonnegative integers , . Thus the Orthogonality of Legendre polynomials isThe vanishing coefficient at the endpoints causes no difficulty here because the solutions are polynomials.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 103 2 b ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
First exclude the short patterns and in the joint spectrum. In the first pattern, the local spectral rules for Young–Jucys–Murphy elements make act by and by on the same simultaneous eigenvector. The two sides of the braid relation in a Coxeter group then act by opposite signs. The second pattern gives the same contradiction with signs reversed.
Now induct on the length of a spectral vector. A prefix of length is spectral for : decompose the restricted group representation and retain a nonzero component of the simultaneous eigenvector. If differed by neither nor from every earlier entry, move it left using the allowed adjacent interchanges. Encountering an equal entry would contradict the distinctness of consecutive eigenvalues. Otherwise it reaches the first position, forcing . For the original first entry was also zero, so an equal entry would indeed have been encountered. ThusThis argument uses only the stated local rules. In particular, iterating the result from also shows that all coordinates are integers.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 103 2 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Necessity is a property of standard Young tableaux alone. The first entry occupies , with Content of a Young-diagram cell zero. Every subsequent cell has a cell immediately above or to its left, of content one larger or one smaller, already present. If two entries occupy the same diagonal, the later cell lies strictly southeast of the earlier. The cells immediately right of and immediately below the earlier one exist and have contents ; their entries lie strictly between the two given entries. This proves all three conditions for content vectors of standard Young tableaux.
For sufficiency, build the Young diagram one cell at a time. All coordinates are integers, because each new coordinate differs by one from an earlier coordinate, starting at zero. Cells of any fixed content are ordered northwest to southeast. For their positions are , ; for they are .
At the first occurrence of a positive , the candidate is . The occurrence of earlier would already force a cell of content in its row, so the neighbor condition must instead supply the content . This supplies the left predecessor. The negative case is symmetric, supplying the upper predecessor, and the first zero gives .
At any later occurrence of , take the next position on its diagonal. The preceding occurrence already supplied all but the next necessary predecessor on each neighboring diagonal. The repeated-entry condition supplies both and after that preceding occurrence, so those next predecessors are present. More explicitly, for and the th occurrence, the left predecessor is the th cell of content , and the upper predecessor is the st cell of content . For both are the st cells on their respective diagonals; for the roles are reversed. These are exactly the predecessors supplied by the two new neighboring occurrences.
The new cell is therefore an addable node of a Young diagram. Induction produces a partition of an integer at every stage, and filling the added cell by its insertion time gives a standard Young tableau. No choice was possible because addable nodes of a Young diagram have distinct contents. Thusand the construction also proves uniqueness of the tableau with a specified vector.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 103 6 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The Specht module construction gives a nonzero inclusion over the complex numbers: a polytabloid has coefficient one at its original tabloid, because the row and column stabilizers have trivial intersection, and its span is the corresponding irreducible representation. This establishes without using the multiplicity-one conclusion. Similarly .
By the corrected tensor identity for induced representations and the conjugate-partition sign twist, the multiplicity of in is . The character inner product already computed is the sum of products of multiplicities of common irreducible representations. ThusBoth are positive integers, so . In particularThis deduction avoids assuming the full Young's rule, which would already contain the answer. Alternatively, the permitted one-dimensional R-module homomorphism space gives the same character inner product immediately.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 114 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use integer coefficients. The mapping-torus homology from Mayer–Vietoris works for every continuous map , without assuming that the mapping torus is a fiber bundle. Project to the time circle and choose two open arcs, one containing the seam and one away from it. The inverse image of the seam arc is a mapping cylinder neighborhood with a deformation retraction to its target copy of ; the inverse image of the other arc is a product with a deformation retraction to . Their intersection has two components, each with a deformation retraction to . Label the upper component first. With the convention that the second inclusion in the Mayer–Vietoris sequence has a minus sign, its homology map isIndeed, the upper component includes into the seam neighborhood by the identity, while retracting the lower component across the seam applies . Put and , and replace target coordinates by . The map becomes . Negating gives a direct sum of and an isomorphism. Canceling the latter summands in the long exact sequence yieldsIn particular, there is a short exact sequenceNo splitting of this short exact sequence is assumed at this stage.
For the torus, take the coordinate loops and as the basis of . Their lifts to have endpoint displacements . Applying changes those displacements to its columns, soThis also follows from the identification of the first homology group with the abelianization of the fundamental group. The Künneth theorem gives , with generator the product orientation class. If are the dual degree-one cohomology classes, then evaluates to one on this generator, andThus the degree-two homology map is multiplication by , as in homology of an integer torus endomorphism. The claim that the torus map is a homeomorphism requires to be a unimodular matrix, equivalently an integer inverse or ; nonsingularity over alone would only give a covering map of finite degree. The particular matrix here is unimodular.
For this matrix, andIts kernel is zero and its Smith normal form is , so its cokernel is . The maps on and are zero. Substituting into the short exact sequences, and splitting the degree-one extension because its quotient is free, gives
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 114 2 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For the sphere homology calculation use singular homology, homotopy invariance of homology, and the reduced Mayer–Vietoris sequence, not cellular homology. For a point, its chain group for singular homology is in every nonnegative degree, and its boundary operator is multiplication by , hence alternately zero and one in positive degrees. Its homology is therefore in degree zero and zero above. Singular chains of a disjoint union split into the summand chain complexes. Start with , the disjoint union of two points: , all positive groups vanish, and . For , remove the north and south poles to obtain an open cover of . Each member is contractible, while has a deformation retraction to , including the disconnected intersection when . The reduced exact sequence therefore suppliesAlso is connected, so its reduced degree-zero group vanishes. Induction givesThe separate calculation avoids conflating its two degree-zero generators.
Choose an orientation of , with , and let be its fundamental class. The mapping degree is the integer determined by . To define the local degree at , set and require to be isolated in . Choose an open neighborhood containing no other point of that fiber. Then defines a map of pairsThe degree- relative homology groups on both sides are , by a manifold chart and excision. The local orientation of a manifold chooses their generators. The induced map multiplies these generators by an integer, denoted . Excision and naturality show independence of the choice of . Differentiability is unnecessary; if is smooth and is invertible, the inverse function theorem gives relative to the orientations. Without isolation in the fiber this pointwise definition need not apply.
For the degree as a sum of local degrees, assume has finite fiber . Disjoint coordinate neighborhoods and excision identifyThe absolute fundamental class maps to the tuple of local orientation generators. Under the relative map induced by , the th generator goes to times the generator at , and the resulting map from the direct sum adds these contributions. On the other hand, naturality says that first applying the absolute map and then passing to the local group at gives times that generator. ThusIf the fiber is empty the sum is zero: the map factors through the contractible punctured sphere and has degree zero. If every point of a fiber is isolated, compactness makes that closed fiber finite, so the theorem applies. In particular, a regular value of a smooth map gives the signed count of its inverse images. For , define a mapping degree on the reduced generator : the identity has mapping degree one, the swap of the two points minus one, and either constant map zero. With local orientation signs positive at and negative at , the same sum formula holds. The connected-sphere convention above is the standard positive-dimensional one.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 129 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Use the usual convention that a three-term arithmetic progression must be nonconstant. There is a genuine small-case defect in the printed statement: for , , and , neither conclusion can hold with . We prove the intended Roth density-increment step for every odd integer , including the small values of , rather than silently treating as covered. Counting constant arithmetic progressions would make the first alternative vacuous for every nonempty .
Suppose that has no nonconstant three-term arithmetic progression, and let be its actual density of a finite subset. Thus . Put , , and embed in the cyclic group . A congruence with is an equality over the integers, since . Thus this embedding creates no extra three-term arithmetic progressions. Since is odd, multiplication by two permutes .
Use normalized Fourier analysis on a finite abelian group, with and . For the normalized trilinear arithmetic progression count, character orthogonality givesIndeed, expanding each function in its inverse Fourier transform, averaging in forces , and averaging in then forces . The Parseval identity in this normalization is .
Let , , and , the balanced indicator function of a finite subset. Then . Only constant arithmetic progressions contribute to , whereas summing over centers counts ordered three-term arithmetic progressions in . HenceSet . Telescope by changing one factor at a time:In the Fourier transform formula for each term, bound the Fourier coefficient of by and apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to the other two factors. The permutation preserves the required squared sums. Since and , this givesIf , then , so the difference in the other direction is at least . Consequently Fourier detection of a progression-free subset of an interval gives a nonzero frequency with
To turn this into a density increment, take . The Dirichlet approximation theorem, proved here by placing into equal intervals modulo one, gives such that . DefineFor , the inequalities and show thatUse a progression partition with nearly constant linear phase: every residue chain of modulo has at least points. Split each chain into blocks of consecutive chain points, merging any remainder into its last full block. This partitions into arithmetic progressions with and common difference .
On a block with first point , the linear phase satisfiesLet . Freezing the linear phase on each block introduces error at most . ThereforeThe block sums total zero. Their positive part consequently totals at least . Since all block lengths total , some block has . Its density of a finite subset is at least .
For the remaining , divide into disjoint consecutive triples and a remainder of at most two points. A three-term-arithmetic progression-free uses at most two points of each triple, so ; the largest ratio occurs at . Any singleton set from then has density of a finite subset one, which is at least . We may therefore use the explicit constantsIn the large case the constructed arithmetic progression has length at least ; in the small case its length one does too. Thus these constants prove the intended result for all odd integers .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 129 2 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Write for the edge density of a bipartite graph between nonempty disjoint vertex sets. A regular pair of vertex sets is -regular if whenever , , , and .
The Szemerédi regularity lemma says that for every and positive integer there is such that every finite simple graph on vertices has a set partitionwhere have equal positive size and at most unordered pairs , , fail to be regular pairs of vertex sets. The version requiring only sufficiently large is equivalent, since the finitely many smaller admissible sizes can use singleton sets as classes. It suffices to prove this for : reducing a larger parameter to gives stronger conclusions.
Here is a complete energy proof, including restoration of equal class sizes. For a set partition with exceptional set , use the following version of equitable regularity energy, omitting pairs incident with :For , define using the ordered adjacency indicator function, with diagonal entries zero. Thus the same formula works on every rectangle. The refinement variance identity for regularity energy iswhere run over the refined cells. Expanding the square proves the identity because their weighted mean edge density of a bipartite graph is . In particular, refinement never decreases the energy. If a union of refined cells has discrepancy greater than , the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounds its contribution below by . For an irregular equal-class pair of size , witnesses have sizes at least , so the increase exceeds in each orientation.
Choose so large that . Initially partition into equal classes and fewer than exceptional vertices. For sufficiently large this exceptional set has size at most . Suppose there are more than irregular unordered pairs at a subsequent step, with equal class size . Choose one witnessing pair of subsets for every such pair. Split each class according to membership in all its witness subsets; each class produces at most atoms. The preceding refinement variance identity for regularity energy shows that the energy increase exceedsas long as the exceptional set has size at most .
Apply equalization with a controlled exceptional set. Set , cut every atom into blocks of size , and send its leftover points to . Provided , the new number of classes satisfiesThe lower bound holds because every old class retains at least one full block: its leftovers total less than . The discarded fraction is at mostCutting blocks is a further refinement before discarding. Discarding changes only ordered pairs with at least one discarded vertex, so it loses at most in the energy. The net increase is therefore at least .
There can be fewer than such strict energy increases, because the energy stays in . Through steps the exceptional fraction is at mostThis also verifies the exceptional-set bound used at every preceding step. Iterating the finite recursion at most times bounds all class counts by some . Choosing sufficiently large in terms of , for instance with and , guarantees throughout. Thus the process terminates with the desired regular pairs of vertex sets. Choose a finite integer threshold for these requirements and set . For , use singleton sets; every pair is regular because its only admissible nonempty subsets are the whole pair. This completes the Szemerédi regularity lemma for all admissible .
For the half graph, a class of size has exactly elements with fewer than predecessors, and the same number with fewer than successors. Thus its boundary contains at most elements. Let be the numbers of classes. The boundary rank obstruction in a half graph gives the union boundbecause . There is therefore an index away from both boundaries. In its classes , all four subsets , , , have at least one tenth of their respective class sizes. These subsets are taken within , which need not be intervals.
In the half graph, and . If were a -regular pair of vertex sets, both values would be within of , implying , a contradiction. At least one class pair is not -regular.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 130 4 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Use the product topology on , with discrete, and the left shift . A basic cylinder set specifies finitely many coordinates. This is a compact metric space, and is a homeomorphism. Write for the forward orbit closure. A minimal point means that is a minimal dynamical system, equivalently that every point of has a dense forward orbit in ; it need not be a fixed point.
There is a convention needed in the source: the bounded-gaps property concerns every finite integer interval , hence every finite word over an alphabet. Literally allowing would make the displayed condition impossible for finite , although a constant coloring is a minimal point. Under the standard finite-word interpretation, the property is precisely uniform recurrence.
Suppose first that is a minimal dynamical system. Its nonempty compact forward-invariant subset must equal . As the ambient left shift is invertible, all integer translates of belong to . Let have length , and let . This is a nonempty clopen set. Each forward orbit in meets , so covers . By compactness, finitely many suffice; let be the largest index in this finite cover. For any integer , the point lies in , so some satisfies . The prescribed word therefore occurs at positions , entirely inside . Taking proves the bounded-gaps property for every interval of length at least .
Conversely suppose is uniformly recurrent. Every finite word from any integer translate of occurs arbitrarily far to the right, so every such translate belongs to . Moreover, the property that every length- block contains a specified word of passes to every : a finite block of is a limit of blocks of forward translates of , and the finite discrete alphabet forces eventual exact agreement on that block. Given , look for its word inside . An occurrence starts at for some , so agrees with on . Taking for arbitrarily large proves that belongs to the forward orbit closure of every . That closure is a closed forward-invariant subset of , so it also contains every forward translate of and hence all of . Every forward orbit is therefore dense in , provingThe same conclusion holds if orbit closure is defined using all integer iterates: the bounded-gaps condition makes the forward and two-sided closures equal.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 134 1 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Put and let be the canonical global section cutting out the effective Cartier divisor . The divisor restriction exact sequence givesThe hypothesis says is an ample line bundle. By Serre vanishing, for all sufficiently large , so the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology makessurjective for all such . These are finite-dimensional vector spaces. Their dimensions form a nonincreasing sequence of nonnegative integers, so the maps are isomorphisms from some point on. Exactness then implies that the restrictionis surjective for all sufficiently large .
Choose such an for which is also a globally generated line bundle. Lift a generating collection of its global sections to . At each point of , one lift has nonzero image in the one-dimensional residue-field fibre, hence generates the stalk of by Nakayama lemma. Outside , is nowhere zero and generates . Together these sections generate it everywhere. ThereforeThis proof works on an arbitrary projective scheme because the defining section of an effective Cartier divisor is a non-zero-divisor. If is empty, and the conclusion is immediate. Semiampleness is the conclusion: the pullback of a line avoiding the centre of a blowup of a smooth algebraic surface of satisfies the hypothesis on its support but has zero intersection with the exceptional curve, and therefore is not ample.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 137 2 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Extend the Dirichlet character periodically to all integers, putting when . Its Dirichlet L-function, initially on , isThe Euler product follows from unique prime factorization and absolute convergence; a Dirichlet character is completely multiplicative on this extension. Write for the principal Dirichlet character, equal to one on units and zero elsewhere.
For a nonprincipal Dirichlet character , character orthogonality gives . Explicitly, multiplication by a unit with permutes the unit residues and multiplies this sum by , forcing it to vanish. For setThe numerator is at zero and the denominator is , so is bounded, indeed analytic, near zero; it decays exponentially at infinity. Initially for , absolute convergence justifiesThis Mellin transform integral is holomorphic for , locally uniformly in , and division by the Gamma function proves the requested analytic continuation to the left of the line one.
In fact, the same argument proves Mellin continuation of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function to the entire plane. If at zero, subtract this Taylor polynomial on and add its explicit integrals:The last integral is holomorphic on . Its possible simple poles at nonpositive integers cancel against zeros of . Letting increase shows that is an entire function, without any primitivity assumption.
For real , use the absolutely convergent Euler product logarithmThe higher-power remainder has the uniform estimateFor a nonprincipal Dirichlet character , invoke the allowed nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one. Its holomorphy and nonvanishing give a holomorphic logarithm on a small disk about one. On the connected real interval , differs from this logarithm by a fixed element of : the difference is continuous with exponential one. Thus the prime-character sum near one is bounded. This branch argument is needed for complex-valued Dirichlet characters.
For ,The finite product has a positive limit as , and the residue-one pole of the Riemann zeta function givesHere for nonprincipal Dirichlet characters means bounded complex magnitude.
Finally, for a residue class coprime to , Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters givesOnly primes not dividing occur, so the character orthogonality applies to every term. This sum diverges as . A finite collection of primes would give a bounded sum, a contradiction. Every reduced residue class contains infinitely many primes. This is the Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions; the coprimality hypothesis is essential.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 340 1 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Use the Fourier transform convention . An orthonormal multiresolution analysis is a family of closed vector subspaces , indexed by integers, with , , and . Its dilation condition is if and only if . The space is invariant under integer function translations and admits a scaling function whose integer function translations form an orthonormal basis. Consequently form an orthonormal basis of .
Since , expansion in that orthonormal basis gives the scaling refinement equationThe series converges in the L2 norm. The associated low-pass filter of a multiresolution analysis is the periodic Fourier series symbolInitially the symbol is defined almost everywhere. Orthonormal integer function translations give the quadrature mirror filter identity almost everywhere. For a Lebesgue integrable scaling function, its Fourier transform is continuous and ; choosing a constant phase makes and the continuous representative near zero has . Different conventions absorb into the refinement coefficients; the displayed convention fixes that ambiguity.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 340 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Let denote the orthogonal complement of inside . The Meyer-Mallat theorem constructs a wavelet whose integer function translations form an orthonormal basis of . Dilation then gives the orthogonal decomposition into orthogonal complements , so its translates and dilates form an orthonormal wavelet basis.
Using the MRA low-pass filter, choose the high-pass symbol . The quadrature mirror filter identity makes the two analysis channels orthonormal. The resulting Fourier transform formula isEquivalently, with the refinement coefficients from the scaling refinement equation, put and . This index choice gives precisely the displayed high-pass symbol. Changing all by one constant unit phase gives the same orthonormal wavelet construction. In particular the often-used convention differs only by a global minus sign. The basis is for .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 340 1 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
A wavelet with vanishing moments satisfies and for . The moment differentiation of the Fourier transform theorem states that these weighted integrability hypotheses make , with . Hence . The MRA projection Fourier identity, together with density of the approximation spaces and continuity of at zero, gives . These are the two analytic theorems needed in addition to the quadrature mirror filter construction.
For the ordinary derivative conclusion, assume also that the MRA low-pass filter is near and is near zero. These hypotheses hold, for example, for a compactly supported scaling function with a finite refinement filter. The wavelet identity givesThe denominator is nonzero near zero. Its reciprocal and the exponential are , so the product rule and the zero Taylor polynomial of give the smooth-mask vanishing-moment criterion
The printed integrability hypothesis alone does not guarantee ordinary higher derivatives. It gives only a continuous . Without added smoothness, Taylor theorem for still gives for the representative defined by the quotient: a Peano zero. This establishes the value at , and for the first derivative there, but it does not automatically establish iterated derivatives.
Here is a lacunary scaling-phase regularity counterexample for . Start with a compactly supported Daubechies wavelet having vanishing moments, with scaling function and finite MRA low-pass filter . Define the periodic phaseThe Fourier coefficients of are absolutely summable. The Wiener algebra is closed under multiplication and the exponential series, so and have absolutely summable Fourier coefficients. Thus is an absolutely summable combination of integer function translations of , belongs to , and generates the same . Unimodularity preserves orthogonality and unit norm of its integer function translations; the inverse phase preserves their complete span. The same approximation spaces therefore give a multiresolution analysis.
The identity gives , so the periodic phase change of a scaling function produces . In the high-pass formula the phases cancel:The associated wavelet is therefore exactly the original one, with unchanged vanishing moments.
At any dyadic point , the difference quotient of the terms with is per term. The sum of these errors and the remaining tail divided by are bounded; the finitely many earlier terms have finite limits. Hence , which has no finite limit. The exponential has the same failure of differentiability. Dyadic points are dense, and is nonzero for sufficiently small . Thus is not differentiable on any neighborhood of , so an ordinary second derivative at , understood as the derivative of a locally defined first derivative, need not exist. The Peano zero remains valid. This separates the intended smooth-mask theorem from what the literal assumptions establish.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 340 1 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Under the smoothness hypotheses in the smooth-mask vanishing-moment criterion, write any nonzero integer as , where and is odd, possibly negative. Iterating the scaling refinement equation exactly times givesThe last MRA low-pass filter factor is . Its derivatives of all orders less than vanish at , because is odd and the MRA low-pass filter is -periodic. If the remaining factors are at the displayed arguments, the product rule forces every derivative of order less than of the product to vanish. In particular compact support and a finite MRA low-pass filter supply all these hypotheses. Therefore the integer-frequency zeros of a scaling function are
Under only the printed assumptions, the exact same finite refinement argument gives the Peano zero . Indeed, the last MRA low-pass filter factor has that estimate, the other MRA low-pass filter factors are bounded by one almost everywhere by the quadrature mirror filter identity, and the last Fourier transform factor is bounded because . The estimate initially holds almost everywhere and extends to every by continuity of . It does not imply arbitrary ordinary higher derivatives. In the lacunary scaling-phase regularity counterexample, is nondifferentiable at dense dyadic points next to the isolated integer-frequency zeros of the smooth base transform. Thus the same regularity qualification is necessary here.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 340 2 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
For , uniform Lipschitz- means that one constant satisfies for every . The resulting Hölder space has normFor the subsequent estimates at general , use the higher-order Hölder class convention: write with an integer and , and require with uniformly Lipschitz-. ThusAt integer , this uses ; the alternative classical convention is stronger on this compact closed interval and also suffices for the estimates.
For exponents above one, a first-difference inequality alone forces the function to be constant. Partition into equal pieces and use the triangle inequality: . Consequently a nontrivial higher-order definition is needed for the full range of exponents in the later wavelet estimates. Equivalently, higher-order Hölder class gives a local Taylor polynomial with remainder bounded by .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 340 5 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Absolute values are missing in the printed formula. For signed real blocks, the intended block mixed norm must beWithout them, at a block has value zero although it is nonzero, and a negative scalar has negative value. For nonintegral , a negative component may not even have a real power. The literal expression therefore is not a norm and does not define the claimed general convex problem. Even integer exponents do not fix all other in the stated range.
With the corrected norm, let be the Holder conjugate exponent: for and for . Blockwise Holder inequality, with equality from a norming block, givesThe duality of block mixed norms identifies the closed compact convex set and the projection residual from the Moreau decompositionFor , the dual blocks are Euclidean balls; for , they are cubes given by componentwise bounds . No injectivity or surjectivity of is required: compactness of the block product makes its linear image compact, and the strictly convex fidelity still gives a unique primal minimizer. For general , the Euclidean projection onto a dual block ball is not generally obtained by radial scaling, so the special clipping formula from the isotropic case should not be reused without further analysis.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 2 17G a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Let have order in a finite group. In a complex group representation, its matrix is diagonalizable with eigenvalues satisfying . If each with is conjugate to , the character of a representation is constant on these powers. Henceusing the stated integrality of each Ramanujan sum. Therefore is rational. It is also an algebraic integer, being a sum of roots of unity; a rational algebraic integer is an integer. Thus .
In a symmetric group, raising a permutation to a power coprime to its order preserves each cycle length and therefore its entire cycle type. Since cycle type determines the conjugacy class, the hypothesis holds, and all character values of symmetric groups are integers.