Solution

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For the indicated function the cosine substitution gives
The absolute-value function is Lipschitz continuous with constant one, and so is sine. Their composition therefore satisfies
Use the sharper intermediate estimate from the preceding part, rather than the ordinary interval modulus of continuity:
The usual inverse theorem for trigonometric approximation cannot hold verbatim with the ordinary interval modulus of continuity. It would imply
But comparison with the endpoint gives
which is of order and contradicts that bound as . This is an endpoint obstruction to an algebraic inverse approximation theorem. The algebraic approximation rate measures smoothness after cosine substitution; cosine compresses distances quadratically near the endpoints. A valid algebraic inverse theorem must account for that endpoint geometry rather than using the unchanged periodic formulation.

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