Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / ii / Paper 3 / 22H / a / Solution

The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that the Fourier transform of an $L^1$ function is continuous and tends to zero at infinity.

For a Schwartz function $f$, differentiation under the integral and integration by parts giveThe Riemann-Lebesgue lemma bounds the right side by an $L^1$ seminorm of $D^{\alpha }(x^{\beta }f)$. Every Schwartz seminorm of $\hat{f}$ is therefore bounded by finitely many Schwartz seminorms of $f$. Hence the Fourier transform maps $\mathcal{S}({\mathbb{R}}^n)$ continuously into itself.