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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2017 Prelims Mathematics V 4 c Solution by
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On the function is odd, so its mean and all its cosine Fourier coefficients vanish:The assigned endpoint value does not affect these integrals. The product of the two odd functions and is even, hence the sine Fourier coefficients areTwo applications of integration by parts giveThereforeThe periodic extension has a jump discontinuity at every odd multiple of : its left and right limits are and . Its assigned value at each such point is . Thus it is odd away from these points, but it is not a globally odd function pointwise. The Fourier series will take the midpoint value zero at these jumps.
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