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Past exam of the fourier analysis course of the University of Oxford 2023 3 a i Solution by
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The periodization of a Schwartz function isFor every nonnegative integer , the Schwartz seminorms give uniformly for . The Weierstrass M-test gives absolute and uniform convergence there of the defining series and all its differentiated series. Termwise differentiation proves that is a smooth function, with . Reindexing the absolutely convergent series proves , so it is a periodic function.
For an explicit smooth periodic partition of unity, choose the bump functionIt is a test function, positive on . The smooth function is periodic and strictly positive, since every has a translate in . SetDivision preserves smoothness because , and the support remains contained in .
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