Solution

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Use the standard Fourier transform on the whole real axis. The printed lower limit is missing a minus sign. For this integrable even function, its only obstruction to smoothness is the origin, so its high-frequency algebraic terms come from its local cusp:
Localize near zero with a smooth cutoff. The smooth polynomial terms, including , contribute no algebraic cusp term; their localized transforms decay faster than any prescribed inverse power. The supplied half-line formula, interpreted away from in an Abel-regularized or tempered distribution sense, gives the Fourier transform of an algebraic cusp
For the cosine is , and for it is . Both cusp coefficients in the local expansion are . Hence
The second coefficient is . The absence of a term follows from the smooth even power , not from neglecting an available correction.
One can verify the signs by integration by parts on . Its endpoint derivatives first have nonzero relevant values and , which contribute twice those values divided by and . Higher derivatives are integrable on the half-line, justifying the displayed remainder after further integrations. Equivalently these coefficients are the Fourier decay from a derivative jump at the origin.

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