Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2005 / iii / Paper 67 / 1 / c / Solution

LetThe upper domain is the sector $\pi /3<\arg k<2\pi /3$; the lower domain consists of the sectors $\pi <\arg k<4\pi /3$ and $5\pi /3<\arg k<2\pi$. Orient their boundaries with the corresponding domain to the left. For $0<x<L$ and $0<t<T$, the Fokas method gives the integral representationHere $\mathcal{F},\mathcal{G}$ are the combinations of all six finite-time spectral boundary transforms defined above. Initially, Fourier inversion of the global relation gives the first integral together with $-{\int }_{\mathbb{R}}{e}^{ikx-\omega t}\mathcal{F}/(2\pi )$ and $+{\int }_{\mathbb{R}}{e}^{ik(x-L)-\omega t}\mathcal{G}/(2\pi )$. For the left endpoint, deform through the upper complementary sectors, where the spatial exponential decays andis bounded. This replaces the real line by $\partial D_{+}$. For the right endpoint, deform in the lower half-plane; the real portions of $\partial D_{-}$ run from right to left. Thus its integral is the negative of the real-line integral, explaining the minus sign in the last displayed term. The arc contributions vanish by spatial exponential decay and integration by parts in the transforms. Oscillatory real-line integrals can equivalently be defined by a decaying cutoff and its limit.

Finally use the finite-horizon extension of a boundary transform. The difference between upper limits $t$ and $T$ contains ${\int }_t^T{e}^{\omega (s-t)}{f}_j(s)ds$, bounded in $D$, while the appropriate spatial factor decays inside $D_{+}$ or $D_{-}$. The Cauchy integral theorem makes this difference vanish. Keeping $T>t$ also avoids an artificial endpoint half-value in temporal inversion. The integral representation at this stage deliberately includes the unknown traces; the rotated global relations eliminate them in the next step.