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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 2 37A b i by
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Write and for the lower and upper layer thicknesses. A steady unidirectional velocity with no pressure gradient satisfies the Navier-Stokes equations through in each layer. Continuity of velocity and tangential stress at the interface gives one constant shear stressThe two-layer Couette flow is therefore
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The simple zeros and are Killing horizons: respectively the black-hole event horizon and the cosmological horizon of the static region.
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The function tends to both as and as . Its only positive stationary point isand it is a maximum withTherefore has two positive simple roots exactly whenAt ,Since is positive precisely between its two positive roots, this proves
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For a nonradial null geodesic,It tends to as , rises to one maximum, and tends to as . A circular null geodesic requires , soSince , this photon sphere is unstable. Its energy satisfies .
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This is the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. Its geodesic Lagrangian may be taken asTime-translation and rotational symmetry give three independent integrals of motion, which may be chosen asThe constant norm of the tangent is , where for a timelike geodesic parametrized by proper time and for a null geodesic. Substitution givesand hence
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In the interaction picture, first-order time-dependent perturbation theory gives the transition amplitudeTaking its squared modulus and using gives
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As , the operator tends to . Evolve the normalized scattering eigenfunction byThe added scalar term keeps the coefficient of at equal to one. At ,ConsequentlyIt follows that
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Differentiatingwith respect to time givesIf , thenThus is an Isospectral Lax equation, and is a Lax pair for the Harry Dym equation.
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Suppose a normalizable solution satisfies . Multiplication by , integration over , and integration by parts giveThe boundary term vanishes for a normalizable eigenfunction. The left side is negative unless , so no nontrivial normalizable solution exists.
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Normalize the solution by its incoming amplitude at . The transmission coefficient and reflection coefficient areFor two solutions of the same equation in Sturm-Liouville form, the modified Wronskianis independent of . Take and . At this gives , while at it givesTherefore , and division by yields conservation of scattering flux:
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LetSince , repeated integration by parts givesThe final remainder estimate follows by one further integration by parts, or by bounding the remaining positive integral by its leading boundary term. Therefore the requested first three terms are
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 2 2H c Solution by
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Because , one of the two directed terms in the given Hausdorff distance vanishes, andSuppose this does not tend to zero. Then some , a strictly increasing sequence and points satisfyAll lie in the compact set , so after passing to a subsequence, . For every fixed , eventually , so and the closedness of gives . Hence , contradicting . Therefore .
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Every is contained in the bounded set , so the intersection is bounded. It is closed because an arbitrary intersection of closed sets is closed.
It remains to prove that is nonempty. Choose . The set is a compact set, so some subsequence converges to a point . For each fixed , all sufficiently late terms satisfy and hence . Since is closed, . This holds for every , so . Thus .
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To prove that it is a closed set, let be a convergent sequence with . By the Heine-Borel theorem, is a compact set, so has a convergent subsequence . ThenSince is closed, , and hence . Therefore is nonempty, closed and bounded, so .
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