Solution

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To repeat integration by parts across whole periods, choose periodic primitives with zero mean. Set , and recursively define
Every has zero mean. Part (i) gives almost everywhere, and because vanishes at both endpoints. Its periodic extension is consequently locally an absolutely continuous function, with no jump at the integers. Part (ii) gives the uniform estimate
The weak derivative identity on the whole line is . After scaling by the integer and repeating integration by parts times,
The boundary terms vanish because has compact support in . The interval contains exactly periods, so
Taking therefore yields
This rapid distributional decay of periodic oscillations uses only integrability of and smoothness of the test function.

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