The map is a conformal map from onto the unit disc. A principal square root first maps the slit parabolic region to a vertical strip, and a scaled tangent followed by squaring maps the strip to a slit disc. Evenness in the square-root variable gives a holomorphic extension across the removed axis, filling the target slit.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 1 13A b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
It helps to separate the tangent and the squaring map. Put , with . The identityshows that gives and . To see that every point of this right half-disc occurs, setThen has and satisfies . The principal complex logarithm is unambiguous because is in the first quadrant.
Squaring maps this right half-disc bijectively onto the unit disc with the interval removed: the argument of lies between and , and doubles into . Thus the desired image isNeither derivative vanishes in the domain, so the composition is also a conformal map onto that slit disc.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 336 3 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The linear dispersion relation for a mode is . The proposed modes share phase velocity , so . A quadratic wave interaction generates the second harmonic and the difference harmonic. With only two positive wavenumbers, phase matching for a quadratic wave interaction requires . Equating their phase velocities givesand thereforeThis is a two-to-one resonance of dispersive waves. Its amplitude changes accumulate on . Choose the slow time ; this harmless constant rescaling makes the later amplitude formulas simple. With , the leading real field is .
For the fundamental, the order- cross derivative in is , while the fundamental coefficient in is . For the second harmonic the corresponding terms are and . The solvability condition in the method of multiple scales removes the resonant forcing and givesThe nonresonant third and fourth harmonics enter the correction. They do not change these leading amplitude equations.
Write , and . Taking real and imaginary parts gives the explosive two-to-one amplitude system in polar form:The polar phases are used where their corresponding amplitudes are nonzero. These equations implyFor the second identity, differentiate using : the terms proportional to cancel. Thereforeare first integrals, and in particular
For constant phases with , these real equations reduce to and . The initial data give , so the Riccati equation for is . Integrating and using givesThe tangent and secant function have a pole at , corresponding to . Both modes grow through their locked resonant interaction. This is formal finite-time blowup of the reduced amplitude equations; the weakly nonlinear expansion loses validity as the amplitudes become large, so it cannot establish a singularity of the full partial differential equation.
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