Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 359 1 c i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The estimates from part b make bounded inand bounded in . Since the periodic embedding is compact, the Aubin-Lions lemma supplies a subsequence such thatThe derivatives converge weakly in to .
Because is fixed and finite dimensional, strong convergence in impliesCombining this with the uniform and bounds in the estimate from part a identifies the weak limitPassing to the limit in the Galerkin identity givesThe projected initial data converge to in , so .
The weak continuity from evolution-space bounds givesSince was arbitrary, this is a global weak solution of the Navier-Stokes equation with spectrally truncated advection.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 359 1 c i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The uniform bounds and the Banach-Alaoglu theorem provide a subsequence, not relabelled, and a function such thatandSince embeds compactly into , the Aubin-Lions lemma strengthens the first convergence toThe weak continuity from evolution-space bounds gives a representativeTesting against fixed spatial modes and using shows that this representative satisfies weakly.