Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 77 2 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Linearity permits subtraction of the incident acoustic membrane wave. The scattered pressure solves the homogeneous Helmholtz equation, and the kinematic relation defines its line displacement on both halves. On , subtracting the incident elastic membrane equation gives the scattered dynamic equation. On , there is no elastic membrane, so the total pressure jump must vanish, giving . The pinned endpoint has , hence , rather than zero.
Use full and Half-range Fourier transforms with the same convention as part (a), and putWrite for the left transform of the upper scattered pressure, for its right transform, and for the corresponding transforms of . Outgoing antisymmetry in impliesThe second relation comes from the prescribed pressure cancellation on .
The endpoint terms in the left Fourier transform of are crucial:Thus . Eliminating gives the Wiener-Hopf equationThere is a defect in the printed right side: with the stated incident exponential, pressure jump, and pinned total displacement, it omits the incident endpoint term and has the opposite sign on the incident-pressure term. The displayed corrected equation follows directly from both boundary traces. The given right side cannot be derived with these definitions. Using , an especially useful equivalent form isThe correction is necessary for the reconstructed pressure to satisfy the original physical boundary conditions.
For Wiener-Hopf factorization, take with the plus factor analytic and nonzero in the upper half-plane and the minus factor analytic and nonzero in the lower half-plane. Singularities listed next refer to continuation out of each factor's own analytic half-plane. Let , so and lies below the real axis. Generically inherits the pole at and the square-root branch point at , while inherits the pole at and the branch point at . The kernel is finite but nonanalytic at the acoustic branch points: its local behavior is a constant plus a square-root term, not an inverse-square-root divergence. Coincident branch points and poles require a limiting treatment.
Zeros of are the fluid-loaded dispersion relation roots. Lower-half-plane roots, including the incoming guided root , belong to the continued ; upper-half-plane roots, including the reflected root for the even kernel, belong to the continued . The roots represent membrane-guided modes; the branch cuts represent radiated acoustic waves. Only roots on the selected outgoing sheet are included, not spurious roots created by squaring the dispersion relation. No explicit factorization is required.
Here is an explicit solution in terms of those factors. DefineThe pole of at has residue ; the pole at is canceled by the pole of . Thus have the required respective analyticity. Divide the corrected Wiener-Hopf equation by and split its right side as , whereThe difference quotient in is removable at and is analytic below. Moving the plus and minus terms to opposite sides yields the common entire function. With the assumed , the solution isCombining with the known gives the full scattered pressure transformThe requested pressure integral, for , is consequentlyThe real contour uses the causal continuation ; its undamped limit retains the induced pole and branch-cut prescriptions. The residue theorem shows that upper-half-plane zeros of yield left-going scattered elastic membrane modes. On the right, the lower incident-pole residue of the scattered integral cancels at the open line, as required.
Finally reconstruct the left scattered displacement:For a generic unspecified , this has a lower-half-plane pole at the bare elastic membrane wavenumber . Such a pole is incompatible with analyticity of an outgoing left-supported scattered displacement: it would represent an additional right-going incoming elastic membrane contribution. It must be removed. Its residue is , so the incoming-pole cancellation at a pinned membrane edge condition isSince is linear in , this fixes the endpoint slope generically. Explicitly it isThe physical lower incident pole of the total displacement is already prescribed by ; it must not be confused with this removable spurious pole of the scattered field.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 1 13A c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
On the parabolic domain with the nonpositive real axis removed, first apply the principal square root, then scale by , and then apply the map of part (b). This gives the stated composite and maps bijectively onto the slit unit disc.
There is no genuine branch cut in the composite. The function is even in , so changing the local square root has no effect. Near zero its Taylor series starts asgiving a holomorphic extension with . There are no poles within the parabolic domain: the possible squared locations are , all on the excluded real portion .
For with , the continuation givesAs ranges from zero to infinity, these values run once through . They fill precisely the slit omitted by the previous mapping, and no point away from the negative real axis has an image in that slit. Therefore the extended map is a bijection onto the whole unit disc:It is holomorphic throughout, so this bijection is the desired conformal map from a parabolic domain to the unit disc; in particular .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 1 2A Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
At the origin, the Taylor series and giveThus has a pole of order three and a pole of order four at zero. For the third function, the Laurent serieshas infinitely many nonzero negative-power terms, so zero is an essential singularity of .
To classify the point at infinity on the Riemann sphere, use the coordinate . Thenso has a simple pole at infinity.
For the other two functions, an important qualification is necessary. The poles of at nonzero integer multiples of , and those of at nonzero integer multiples of , approach infinity. Equivalently, their images in the coordinate accumulate at zero. Hence infinity is a non-isolated singularity of and . Neither function is holomorphic on any punctured neighbourhood of infinity, so the classification of isolated singularities into removable singularities, poles and essential singularities does not apply there.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 124 1 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Let be the Mertens function. Partial summation givesFor any , choose a sufficiently small with . The assumed bound makes the boundary term tend to zero and makes the integral absolutely convergent. Moreover, on each compact set of this half-plane, one can choose the same , so the integral has locally uniform convergence. Henceis a holomorphic function on , agreeing with the reciprocal Dirichlet series from part (b) on .
The identity theorem applied to the holomorphic functions and extends their equality throughout ; the assumed simple pole makes the first function holomorphic at . Thus away from , proving a zero-free half-plane:
To obtain the strongest symmetric conclusion, use the following basic facts explicitly: the functional equation of the Riemann zeta function gives the entire function with , and the trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function are the negative even integers. Every Nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is therefore accompanied by its reflection . A Nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function with real part below would reflect to one above , which is impossible. Consequently all nontrivial zeros lie in the closed stripThe in the hypothesis prevents this argument from excluding either boundary line; the trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function remain present.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 124 4 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Put . The given bound for the Riemann zeta function, together with for , givesThe integral over is bounded, since the Riemann zeta function has no pole on this compact segment. It remains to estimate the fourth moment of the Riemann zeta function through this moving Dirichlet polynomial cutoff.
Let and . In the expansion of , a quadruple occurs precisely forIts oscillatory factor is , and its weight is . When , its integral has length at most . When these products differ, its integral over has absolute value at most . Thus the moving cutoff affects the lower endpoint but preserves the off-diagonal bound from part (a).
Write . The divisor function bounds . Grouping the off-diagonal majorant by the two products and using the weighted row-sum argument in part (a), with coefficient and , bounds it byThis uses only the given divisor-square summatory bound. For bounded , the desired conclusions follow by boundedness on compact segments, so these estimates may be read for large with . We have proved the requested diagonal-plus-error estimate:
The diagonal sum equals . If , then partial summation givesConsequently the full fourth-moment bound is
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 126 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Write the period lattice as , with real-linearly independent and . A meromorphic function is an elliptic function for this lattice if for every . If it has no poles, it is an entire function bounded on the closure of a fundamental parallelogram. Periodicity makes it bounded on all of , so the Liouville theorem proves that an elliptic function without poles is constant.
Here are the two contour identities needed for counting its zeros and their sum. Choose a positively oriented fundamental parallelogram whose boundary avoids all zeros and poles, and put . The argument principle givesbecause is periodic and opposite edges cancel. Here count zeros and poles with multiplicity. For the weighted integral, let be the integral of along the edge from a vertex to . Translating the opposite edges givesThe endpoint values of agree along either edge. A continuous logarithm along the edge therefore changes by , with , and . On the other hand, the residue theorem evaluates the left side as the sum of the zero positions minus the sum of the pole positions, both with multiplicity. Thus the elliptic divisor-sum identity isUnder the stated pole hypothesis there is just one pole class, represented by zero, of order . ConsequentlyChanging representatives of the zero classes changes their weighted sum by an element of , so the congruence is well defined.
The Weierstrass elliptic function isOn a bounded set of , the summand is for large . The lattice sum of converges in real dimension two, proving Normal convergence of the Weierstrass elliptic-function series on compact sets away from . Hence is a holomorphic function there, and at zero its principal part is , so it has a double pole. Replacing by shows that is even. Differentiating the normally convergent series giveswhose absolute convergence permits reindexing by any . Thus is periodic and is constant. Substituting for and using evenness changes that constant to its negative, so it is zero. This proves that is an elliptic function, with double poles precisely at the lattice points.
The preceding zero count applied to says that it has exactly two zeros modulo , counted with multiplicity. Evenness pairs any zero with . If these are distinct classes they must both be simple. If they coincide, , and locally : the zero has even order, which the total count forces to be two. In particular such a zero cannot be a lattice point, where has a pole. Every finite fibre of the Weierstrass function consists of two opposite simple points or one double nonzero half-period point.
To obtain the rational representation, first consider an even elliptic function . The preceding description proves that has exactly the fibres , so defines a function of . Away from the branch values a local inverse of makes meromorphic. At a half-period , the local expansion is , with because the zero has order exactly two. The Laurent series of contains only even powers, and is a holomorphic local coordinate as a function of . Thus is meromorphic at that value too. At zero the same argument uses , proving meromorphy at infinity. A meromorphic function on the Riemann sphere is a rational function: subtract its finitely many principal parts and use compactness to make the remainder constant. This proves that even elliptic functions are rational in the Weierstrass function.
For an arbitrary elliptic function, split , where . The even part is . Since is odd and not identically zero, is an even meromorphic elliptic function, including at the zeros of where the quotient may have poles. It is therefore for a rational function . The elliptic function-field decomposition isThe representation is unique: its even and odd parts determine and , and takes every value on the Riemann sphere.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 137 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Use the Fourier transform normalization . A precise version of the Poisson summation formula is that, for every Schwartz function ,Both series have absolute convergence. Here being a Schwartz function means being smooth with for all nonnegative integers . This hypothesis makes the sums and the termwise operations below legitimate; the formula is not being asserted for arbitrary integrable functions.
Form the periodization of a Schwartz function . Every differentiated series has uniform convergence on , by rapid decay, so is a smooth periodic function of period one. Its th Fourier coefficient isThe interchange follows from absolute convergence uniformly on this interval. Integration by parts shows that these Fourier coefficients decrease faster than every inverse power of . Thus the Fourier series converges absolutely and uniformly to ; for example the standard convergence theorem for twice continuously differentiable periodic functions applies. Evaluating at zero proves the Poisson summation formula.
For , scaling the given Gaussian Fourier transform givesApplying the Poisson summation formula gives the real-parameter Jacobi theta function transformation
For , termwise application of the Mellin transform is justified by integrating absolute values and givesEach positive contributes , and the factor one half removes the equal positive and negative terms. This is the Mellin representation of the completed Riemann zeta function.
Split the integral at one. On , the Jacobi theta function transformation writes . Integrating the first two terms and substituting in the third yields the pole-subtracted theta integral for the completed zeta function:The remaining integral is an entire function of : , and on each compact set of this exponential dominates all powers of and all factors arising from differentiation. It therefore supplies a meromorphic continuation of to the whole plane, with simple poles at one and zero, of residues and , respectively. Its expression is unchanged by .
The reciprocal Gamma function is entire, with simple zeros at its nonpositive integer arguments. Consequentlyis holomorphic everywhere except for a simple pole at , of residue one. The apparent pole at cancels; in fact gives . This proves the analytic continuation of the Riemann zeta function. The completed functional equation of the Riemann zeta function isThese are equalities of meromorphic functions; at apparent singularities they are interpreted by continuation. Equivalently, is an entire function with .