Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 4 5D Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
Introduce the Cauchy approximate identityIt is an approximate identity converging to the Dirac delta function , and . For a smooth rapidly decaying test function , integration by parts givesBy the definition of the derivative of the Dirac delta, . Therefore the limit as a distribution is