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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 25 4 a Solution by
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Put and . For any positive integer shift , translating the interval changes its sum by at most . Averaging the shifts gives the bilinear shift averaging for a logarithmic phase identitySince , the alternating Taylor expansion of the logarithm has remainder at most . ThusFor , we have , hence the error is at most . The exponential function on an imaginary argument changes by at most the change in that argument. ThereforeUse and . Taking absolute values provesThe boundary error comes from integer shifts, so this argument also covers intervals shorter than a shift. Here range over positive integers; no zero term is needed.
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