Solution

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Apply the divergence theorem to , using ii. Because the vector is constant, it can be taken outside both integrals:
This holds for every , in particular each of the three Cartesian basis vectors. Equality of the three components proves the gradient volume-to-boundary identity
It suffices that be a continuously differentiable function on a neighbourhood of the closure of .

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