Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 ib Paper 2 11G Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An isotropic tensor has unchanged components under every rotation: for rank four, . Orthogonality gives , so each product of paired Kronecker deltas is invariant. Every linear combination of , and is therefore isotropic, for arbitrary coefficients.
For the integral, differentiation away from the origin givesAfter multiplication by , this behaves as and is locally integrable in three dimensions. Interpret the integral as the limit with a small central ball removed. A rotation preserves the integration ball and the radial kernel, so the resulting is an isotropic tensor integral. The symmetries and force the two cross-pair coefficients equal:Taking the trace in uses off the origin and gives . For the other contraction, the displayed Hessian gives . ThusSolving gives and . Therefore the requested tensor isThis is the quadratically weighted inverse-radius Hessian integral. The origin creates no extra contribution to this weighted integral; even the distributional point term in the unweighted Hessian is annihilated by .