Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2006 Paper 1 3 Solution Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
With the stated angular-frequency convention, the inverse Fourier transform is . Direct integration gives . For , integration by parts has zero boundary terms and gives . ThereforeThis also follows from the Fourier transform of a polynomial multiple, since multiplication by corresponds to .
To prove Parseval's identity, substitute the inverse transform of into . Under the assumed integrability, Fubini's theorem permits interchange, and the inner integral is . HenceApply this with . The spatial Gamma integral is . The transformed squared modulus is , giving the scaled even rational Parseval integral
Differentiate under the Fourier transform integral:Hence the Fourier transform of a polynomial multiple isAbsolute integrability of the required moments justifies differentiation under the integral. The identity also extends to tempered distributions.