Solution

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Where is twice continuously differentiable, the identity divergence of a curl is zero gives . All regular portions of the parameter interval lie in this region, hence
as an improper line integral. Besides the endpoint problem from (i), the curve touches at , where the printed real expression has no smooth open neighbourhood. The identity applies on the intervening open segments, and its zero value has a unique continuous extension along the curve. A literal classical integrand at every parameter is not supplied by the printed field.

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