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Past exam of the methods of applied functional analysis course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 2 a iv Solution by
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An integrable example on the whole real line is the tent functionIt is not differentiable at . For a test function , split the integral into and and use integration by parts. The endpoint terms at vanish because , and those at zero cancel because is continuous. The result is . Thus the corners obstruct classical differentiability but not this weak derivative.
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