Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2026 / iii / Paper 107 / 4 / e / Solution

Part c supplies a bounded slope condition constant $K$. Choose $k>K$. Parts a and d give a constrained minimizer with $\mathrm{Lip}(u)\le K<k$, and part b makes it a minimizer over all of ${\mathrm{Lip}}_g(B_1)$.

For $F(\xi )=\sqrt{1+|\xi {|}^2}$, the Euler-Lagrange equation is the minimal surface equation for a graphThe Lipschitz bound confines $Du$ to a compact set on which $D^{2}F$ is uniformly positive definite, so the equation is uniformly elliptic. Interior regularity gives $C^{1,\alpha }$ first, and repeated Schauder estimates then give smoothness in the interior.

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