Because the centered normal distribution density is nonnegative and has integral one, Fubini's theorem and translation invariance give
Thus .
Use the angular-frequency convention
The convolution theorem and the Gaussian transform give
Since , this product is integrable. Moreover, absolute integrability justifies exchanging the integrals:
This proves the Fourier inversion theorem for the convolution directly.
Now additionally suppose . For every , the dominated convergence theorem gives
Fourier inversion identifies the right-hand side with for Lebesgue almost everywhere . Therefore the Gaussian approximate identity satisfies
For a divisor on an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field, its degree is
For a nonzero rational function , its principal divisor is
where zeros have positive order and poles have negative order.
Now let have degree zero on the projective line. Choose a homogeneous linear form whose zero is . Since , the expression
is homogeneous of degree zero and therefore defines a rational function on . Each has one simple zero, and the cancellation of total degree removes any common scaling ambiguity, so
Thus every degree-zero divisor on is principal. If and have the same degree, then is principal, whence
This is the divisor class on the projective line.
Write . The coordinate has no critical zero or pole in the finite chart. Near infinity use ; then
Hence the rational differential has one double pole at infinity and no other zero or pole:
which represents the canonical divisor of the projective line.
If , then , and linear equivalence of divisors gives . A function in the latter space has no finite poles, so it is a polynomial, and its degree is at most . Therefore
This calculation uses only the rational functions on , rather than the Riemann-Roch theorem.
Finally, suppose distinct satisfy . The function has one simple pole and therefore defines a degree-one finite morphism . A degree-one finite morphism between smooth projective curves is an isomorphism. It would follow that and hence that has genus zero, contrary to the hypothesis. Thus the principal divisor with one simple zero and one simple pole cannot occur on :
For , the Sobolev space consists of tempered distributions such that
For a multi-index ,
Since
we obtain the Sobolev derivative estimate
Thus differentiation is bounded and linear between the stated spaces.
Taking the Fourier transform of
gives
The only possible solution is therefore
Moreover,
This proves existence, uniqueness, and bounded dependence. Conversely, maps boundedly to , so
is a linear isomorphism with inverse multiplier . This is the massive Laplacian isomorphism on Sobolev spaces.
Finally, the assumed estimate and Plancherel theorem imply
Thus is bounded in . The functions and all their first derivatives are supported in the fixed bounded set . Their bounds give uniform translation estimates
for and . Tight support and the Rellich-Kondrashov compactness theorem for H01, equivalently the Fourier compactness criterion, therefore provide a common subsequence for which and every first derivative converge strongly in . Hence
This is compactness from bounded support and an H2 bound.

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