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The required property is odd symmetry, , up to irrelevant changes on a set of measure zero when discussing Fourier coefficients. An odd function has zero mean, and its products with cosine are odd, so every cosine coefficient vanishes. Its sine coefficients may remain nonzero.
For pointwise representation, the Fourier series takes the average of the one-sided limits at a jump. In particular a pure Fourier sine series has value zero at the origin and at the endpoints; arbitrary assigned values there need not equal the series sum.
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Taking the second partial derivatives of the polynomial givesAdding cancels the pure fourth powers and leavesThus direct substitution verifies the stated Poisson equation.
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Subtracting the third row from the first gives , and the third row gives . The second row then reduces toFor , the unique solution isConsequently gives for every , whereas gives
When , the first and second left-hand sides coincide. If , they are the same plane, and the remaining independent plane cuts it in the lineIf , the two planes are distinct and parallel, so there is no solution. Geometrically, for the three planes intersect at a single point; at the coincident-plane case leaves an entire line, while the parallel-plane case has empty intersection.
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The homogeneous linear system has solution set , a vector subspace. If it contains only the zero vector, no two different solutions of the full system can exist: their difference would be a nonzero homogeneous solution.
A particular solution to the full system exists exactly when belongs to the image of a linear map . If it exists, every solution isIndeed, subtracting from gives , and conversely adding a kernel vector preserves the right-hand side. Thus there are no solutions, one solution if the kernel is trivial, or infinitely many solutions if it is nontrivial. The last solution set is an affine subspace of dimension , determined by the rank-nullity theorem. For a square nonsingular matrix there is one solution for every right-hand side.
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