Solution

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The periodic continuation is on each interval . Thus the plot repeats an increasing exponential segment on each of the three requested periods, jumping down from to at odd multiples of .
At , the left and right limits are and . The Dirichlet-Jordan convergence theorem therefore makes the Fourier series converge to
The actual half-open periodic definition has ; the Fourier value at the jump need not equal that assigned endpoint value.
Figure 1.
Three periods of the exponential continuation and the Fourier-series midpoint at a jump
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