Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2026 / iii / Paper 107 / 2 / a

Join the Laplace operator to the target operator byThe family has one ellipticity constant. The global Schauder estimate and the maximum principle give, uniformly in $t$,for zero boundary data. Let $I$ contain those $t$ for which $L_t:C_0^{2,\alpha }\to C^{\alpha }$ is onto. The assumed Laplace solvability gives $0\in I$; the bounded inverse theorem and small perturbations make $I$ open; and the uniform estimate plus compactness of lower Hölder embeddings makes $I$ closed. The method of continuity yields $I=[0,1]$. At $t=1$ this gives the required solution, and the maximum principle gives uniqueness.

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