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Past exam of the integration course of the University of Oxford 2017 1 c ii Solution by
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The dominated convergence theorem says that if measurable converge almost everywhere to and almost everywhere for a single Lebesgue integrable function , then is integrable andHere, for , put and . The exponential function gives at every such , so . Also . This dominator is integrable: on , , whose integral is two; on , , whose integral is finite. DCT therefore proves the required limit.
The limiting value can also be evaluated. Substitute and use the Gaussian integral:In fact, scaling the second exponential term gives the exact integral . The integral error decays as despite exponential convergence at each fixed positive ; the slow part lies near the endpoint zero.
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