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Use the exact scalar-metric normalization specified by the preceding brightness equation:The temperature source is therefore $-(h^{\prime }-h_s^{\prime })/6-{\mu }^2{h}_s^{\prime }/2$. Let $W=e^{ik\mu (\tau -{\tau }_0)}$, so $W^{\prime }=ik\mu W$ and $W^{\prime \prime }=-k^2{\mu }^{2}W$. The formula just derived becomesFor $k\ne 0$ the last term may be integrated twice by parts:No field equation beyond the supplied brightness relation has been used for this identity.

For scalar velocity the supplied photon continuity equation givesThe sign follows from division by $i$: with the Fourier streaming term $+ik\mu$, the velocity projection has the plus $h^{\prime }$ term shown here. Combining it with the lower endpoint from the integrations by parts gives the complete endpoint terms in the synchronous Sachs-Wolfe formula:The local observer bracket is an angular photon monopole plus photon dipole. Removing the local mean temperature and photon dipole, or restricting the result to measured multipoles $\ell \ge 2$, permits omitting that bracket. It must be retained for the literal full brightness amplitude. The $k=0$ limit should be taken in the original line-of-sight integral, rather than treating the separate inverse-$k$ endpoint terms as independently defined.

The final target formula printed in the PDF does not follow from its preceding equations. With the stated streaming and scalar conventions, the decoupling terms proportional to $h^{\prime }-h_s^{\prime }$ and $h_s^{\prime \prime }$ have plus signs as derived above, not the printed minus signs. Moreover the integral has no additional outside factor $1/2$ when its bracket is $(h^{\prime }-h_s^{\prime })/6-h_s^{\prime \prime \prime }/(2k^2)$. Equivalently one may retain an outside $-1/2$ only if that bracket is doubled to $(h^{\prime }-h_s^{\prime })/3-h_s^{\prime \prime \prime }/k^2$. Omitting the observer photon monopole and photon dipole does not fix these discrepancies.

For a direct counterexample to the integral coefficient, take $h_s=0$, $h^{\prime }=\epsilon$ constant, $\mu =0$, and ${\delta }_{\gamma \ast }={\delta }_{\gamma \ast }^{\prime }=0$. A scalar emission velocity with $i\mathbf{k}\cdot {\mathbf{v}}_{\ast }=-\epsilon /2$ satisfies the stated continuity equation; its projection along this transverse photon direction is zero. Keep $\epsilon ({\tau }_0-{\tau }_{\ast })\ll 1$ so perturbation theory is valid. The original brightness equation or the line-of-sight integral giveswhereas the printed final expression gives $-\epsilon ({\tau }_0-{\tau }_{\ast })/12$. All $h_s$ observer terms vanish in this example, so an observer-term convention cannot remove the contradiction. The boxed corrected identity supplies the requested integration-by-parts result with every boundary contribution and its observable higher-multipole version specified.