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Past exam of the analysis course of the University of Oxford 2008 B 7 Solution by
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With the classical real coefficientsthe partial sum is . It is the orthogonal projection onto the first trigonometric modes. Completeness of the trigonometric orthonormal system therefore gives .
For periodic, integration by parts has zero endpoint terms and gives , , and . ThusFor periodic functions, another integration by parts gives and . Riemann-Lebesgue makes the numerator sequences tend to zero, in particular bounded. The Weierstrass M-test and prove absolute and uniform convergence. The resulting continuous sum agrees with in by the first result. Two continuous functions equal almost everywhere are equal everywhere, so the pointwise sum is for every real .
For the polynomial example the periodic extension is : the function, its first derivative and its second derivative match at the endpoints. It is even, so all sine coefficients vanish. Direct integration givesFor example, integration by parts gives and , from which the cancellation of the terms follows. ThereforeAt , the left side vanishes, yielding
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