Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 81 4 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For , the steady polar flux satisfies . Regularity at both poles makes its integration constant zero. ThusNormalize with :The zero-flow steady gyrotactic orientation distribution is thereforeDifferentiating the logarithm of its normalization integral gives the Langevin function meanAs , and the mean tends to zero; as , the distribution concentrates at the upward pole and the mean tends to . At zero diffusivity the pole-concentrated steady state is a probability measure, not a regular density of this formula.