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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2011 ii Paper 1 31A Solution by
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The asymptotic expansion means that for every fixed integer ,It concerns the successive finite truncations; the infinite series need not converge. Because the assertion holds at every order, one may equivalently bound the remainder after order by .
Put and . For integer , and . Two integrations by parts giveRepeating exactly times givesAll derivatives are integrable on this compact interval. The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma says their oscillatory integrals tend to zero, proving the expansion at every order, including . Since is even, its odd derivatives vanish at zero. Now and , soThe restriction to integer is essential to this even-power endpoint expansion: otherwise the first integration by parts has a generally nonzero boundary term.
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