Solution

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Take the Fourier transform convention , with inverse factor . Then , classically when the boundary terms vanish or in the sense of tempered distributions.
Multiply the given frequency relation by its denominator and then by :
Recognizing the four derivative multipliers gives
The convention is stated explicitly because reversing the Fourier exponential changes intermediate frequency signs. The distributional form will matter at the jump of in part (b).

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