Let
Since , repeated integration by parts gives
The final remainder estimate follows by one further integration by parts, or by bounding the remaining positive integral by its leading boundary term. Therefore the requested first three terms are
Suppose a normalizable solution satisfies . Multiplication by , integration over , and integration by parts give
The boundary term vanishes for a normalizable eigenfunction. The left side is negative unless , so no nontrivial normalizable solution exists.
Differentiating under the contour integration sign gives
Since , integration by parts turns this into
The integral vanishes when
Hence, up to an irrelevant multiplicative constant,
The remaining endpoint condition is
Thus each open end of must lie where ; a closed contour also makes the boundary term vanish when the integrand is single-valued along it.
Put with its usual Hilbert space inner product, and define
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality shows that this is a bounded bilinear form. For , Young inequality gives
and therefore
Because , this is a coercive bilinear form.
The map is a bounded linear functional on . By the Riesz representation theorem, it equals for some . Applying part (b) produces one and only one such that
This is precisely the weak formulation of the stated Dirichlet problem, obtained by integration by parts in the Laplace operator term. Thus is its unique weak solution; this is the constant-drift massive-Laplacian Dirichlet problem.
Assume for contradiction that with positive integers . Define
and
The coefficient of in is
Consequently every derivative is an integer: it is zero unless , and in that range the factor clears the denominator. Since , every is also an integer.
Repeated integration by parts, ending when derivatives above degree vanish, gives
Thus is an integer. It is strictly positive because for .
On the other hand, , so
The factorial-over-power series implies that the right-hand side tends to zero. For all sufficiently large this says that the positive integer is less than one, a contradiction. Therefore the Irrationality of pi is established:
Put and, for , define
One integration by parts gives
Starting with and iterating times yields
where
Since , the remainder is , which is little- of the last retained term. Therefore
The displayed terms form an asymptotic sequence because the ratio of successive magnitudes tends to zero.
Introduce a Lagrange multiplier for the normalization and vary
For a smooth variation with on , integration by parts gives
The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations therefore yields the Euler-Lagrange equation
Multiplying by and integrating, while using
the divergence theorem and on the boundary give
The normalization is one, so the multiplier equals the stationary value:
Take a variation with . Expanding the action gives
An integration by parts and the fixed endpoint conditions give the first variation
The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations therefore yields the Euler-Lagrange equation
and the second variation is
Linearizing the equation of motion about gives
so the Jacobi equation is
When has no zero on ,
The total derivative integrates to zero because , hence
For the simple harmonic oscillator, the Jacobi equation is . Put and choose
If , then throughout , so is positive there. The preceding square identity proves that the classical path is a local minimum of the action whenever the elapsed time is less than half an oscillation period.
Multiplication by puts the equation in self-adjoint form:
Multiply by and integrate over . Regularity and the vanishing factor at both endpoints remove the boundary term in integration by parts, leaving
If is not identically zero, the integral on the right without is positive, whereas the left side is nonnegative. Therefore
The Laplace transform of a function on is
for values of for which the integral converges. Integration by parts gives the Laplace transform of a derivative
Write . Transforming the first two equations and using the initial data gives
The third equation then gives
and hence
A partial fraction decomposition therefore yields the sequential radioactive decay formula
Now let and put . The transformed contribution originating from the initial population becomes
Equivalently, solve the middle equation first to obtain
and use an integrating factor in the final equation:
Evaluating the elementary integral gives
Let , where the variation satisfies . Differentiating the functional at gives its first variation
Using integration by parts and the fixed endpoint conditions,
If this vanishes for every admissible , the fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations gives the Euler-Lagrange equation
Write the Generalized Korteweg–De Vries equation as
For a sufficiently regular solution, integration by parts gives
Thus KdV mass conservation gives
is conserved.
The Gravitational Hartree equation can be written
where is real. Consequently
because both integrals multiplied by are purely imaginary after integration by parts. Hence Hartree mass conservation holds.
A phase function is a real smooth function
that is positively homogeneous of degree one in and has no critical point in all variables:
The symbol class consists of all such that, for every compact and multi-indices ,
For a cutoff equal to one near zero, define the oscillatory integral by
Repeated integration by parts makes the limit meaningful and independent of the cutoff.
The singular support is the complement of the largest open set on which the distribution is represented by a smooth function. Suppose does not belong to
On a sufficiently small neighborhood of , homogeneity and compactness of the unit sphere give a lower bound for . The differential operator
satisfies . Repeatedly transferring to the amplitude lowers its symbol order until the integral and all its -derivatives converge absolutely. Hence is smooth near , proving
For the stated distribution on , rotational symmetry lets us align the polar axis with and write . The angular integral is
Therefore, for ,
The original amplitude is not Lebesgue integrable in , so this computation illustrates how oscillation assigns a distribution to a divergent ordinary integral. The result is smooth away from the origin and has singular support . It is a constant multiple of the three-dimensional Yukawa potential, satisfying with the normalization used in the question.
Using multi-index notation, the Schwartz space is
Its topology is generated by the displayed seminorms. The tempered distribution is its continuous dual, with weak convergence defined by convergence of every pairing with a Schwartz function.
For the convention
differentiation under the integral and integration by parts give
These identities bound every Schwartz seminorm of by finitely many seminorms of , proving continuity. The Fourier inversion theorem gives the continuous inverse
so the Fourier transform is a continuous isomorphism of . By duality,
defines a continuous isomorphism of .
Define the perturbation vorticity component
Taking the curl of the linear momentum equation and using the buoyancy equation gives
Multiply the first equation by , the second by , and horizontally average. Periodicity makes the averaged derivatives vanish, while
by incompressibility and integration by parts. It follows that
Therefore the wave activity conservation law is
The equation can be written
For the squared L2 norm, periodic integration by parts and the reality of give
Thus the Schrödinger equation generates a unitary flow and is constant.
The volumetric flow rate is . Integration by parts, using finite and , gives
Because the stress magnitude is , change variables from to :
Therefore the required power is . The fundamental theorem of calculus gives the pipe form of the Weissenberg–Rabinowitsch equation:
Finally , so
A measured pressure-drop--flow-rate curve therefore recovers the wall viscosity without assuming a constitutive form.
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that the Fourier transform of an function is continuous and tends to zero at infinity.
For a Schwartz function , differentiation under the integral and integration by parts give
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma bounds the right side by an seminorm of . Every Schwartz seminorm of is therefore bounded by finitely many Schwartz seminorms of . Hence the Fourier transform maps continuously into itself.
Put . The common Dirichlet boundary condition gives on . Expanding the energy functional,
Integration by parts and the field equation make the cross term zero:
Consequently
For , equality holds exactly when . For , equality holds exactly when , so is constant on the connected region; its zero boundary value then again forces . The minimizing property therefore proves uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem in both cases: