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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 71 5 Solution by
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Use the central second difference and define the second modulus of smoothness byWe first need its scaling inequality. If is a positive integer, translation by gives the telescoping identityThe weights sum to . For , choose and ; thenThe same bound covers trivially.
In the paper's normalization, the Fejér kernel is even and nonnegative, with . Pairing the positive and negative translations expresses the Fejér sum error asUse the scaling bound and to obtainFor , . Bounding the numerator sine by one givesThe bound at holds by continuity. Choosing proves the Fejér second-modulus approximation bound with an explicit universal constant:Finally, for twice continuously differentiable periodic , two applications of the fundamental theorem of calculus give the second-difference integral formulaThe triangular weight has integral , so . Therefore
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