Past exam of the integration course of the University of Oxford / 2015 / 2 / a

The function is continuous for $x>0$, hence Lebesgue measurable. Near zero, the bound $|\sin x|\le x$ givesThus $f$ is Lebesgue integrable on $(0,1]$ for $q<2$. The convergence is an instance of power singularity integrability.

For the tail, take the pairwise disjoint intervalsOn each $I_k$, $|\sin x|\ge 1/2$, $x\le (k+1)\pi$, and the interval length is $2\pi /3$. ThereforeSumming the nonnegative integrals over these disjoint intervals yieldsby divergence of the p-series. Hence $f$ is not Lebesgue integrable on $[1,\infty )$ for $0<q\le 1$.

The test is absolute integrability: oscillatory sign cancellation does not make the absolute-value integral finite. A conditionally convergent improper integral is a different notion. The sine power kernel integrability criterion separates these endpoint thresholds.