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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 ib Paper 2 5D ii Solution by
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The endpoint agreement makes the boundary terms vanish when integrating the Fourier coefficients of by parts. If denote these coefficients, thenThese are exactly the coefficients obtained by differentiating the preceding Fourier series:On every compact subinterval of the differentiated series converges uniformly by the Dirichlet test, since partial sums of the sine factors are uniformly bounded there. The Termwise differentiation of a Fourier series is therefore valid away from integers and gives on . At an integer the periodic original has a corner, so the differentiated series is not asserting the existence of an ordinary derivative there.
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