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Past exam of the integration course of the University of Oxford 2015 3 a Solution by
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Fix . The function is continuous on , because its denominator is bounded away from zero, and it is an odd function of . Its integral over this symmetric interval is therefore zero. At the entire section is zero, including the specified value at the origin. Thus the inner integral exists for every and is identically zero. The same reasoning with and exchanged givesTo test Lebesgue integrability in two dimensions, examine the absolute value near the origin. For , the annulus lies inside the square. In polar coordinates,The change of variables formula on this annulus, where the integrand has no singularity, givesThe lower bound tends to infinity as . HenceMoreover reflection in either coordinate axis exchanges the positive part and negative part while preserving Lebesgue measure. Both parts therefore have infinite integral, so a signed double Lebesgue integral would involve the undefined expression .
There is no contradiction with Fubini's theorem: its absolute integrability hypothesis is missing. This is an example of finite iterated integrals without joint integrability, with every individual one-dimensional section integrable despite the two-dimensional singularity.
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