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A function is discontinuous at a point in its domain of a function when it fails the epsilon-delta definition of continuity there. Two basic failures are an incorrect assigned value and unequal one-sided limits. They demand different repairs.

For a removable discontinuity, considerThe limit at zero is $0$, but $r(0)=1$. Replacing that one value by $0$ gives the continuous square function. The sequence $x_n=1/n$ makes the mismatch visible: $r(x_n)=1/n^2\to 0\ne r(0)$. A removable discontinuity can also describe an expression with a missing value, in which case the question is whether a continuous extension to the missing input exists.

For a jump discontinuity, take $j(x)=0$ for $x<0$ and $j(x)=1$ for $x\ge 0$. The left and right one-sided limits at zero are $0$ and $1$. No assignment to $j(0)$ can equal both, so changing only the point value cannot make the function continuous there. Contrast both examples with the corner of $|x|$: that function is continuous at zero even though its derivative is absent.

Let an integrable function have finite one-sided limits $A,B$ at zero. Oddness gives $(Q_r\ast f)(0)=(2\pi {)}^{-1}{\int }_0^{\pi }{Q}_r(t)[f(-t)-f(t)]dt$. Also ${\int }_0^{\delta }{Q}_r(t)dt=\log [(1-2r\cos \delta +r^2)/(1-r{)}^2]=2\log (1/(1-r))+O_{\delta }(1)$. Thus $(Q_r\ast f)(0)/\log (1/(1-r))\to (A-B)/\pi$: make the near-zero error in $f(-t)-f(t)$ arbitrarily small and bound the remaining integral uniformly. When negative Fourier coefficients vanish, the conjugate-kernel identity makes this convolution bounded because $P_r\ast f$ tends to $(A+B)/2$. Therefore $A=B$. A removable discontinuity caused solely by altering a point value is not excluded.

The precise conclusion is that finite one-sided limits must agree, so a jump discontinuity is impossible. We prove this using explicit kernels and derive every conjugate-series identity used. The distinction from a removable discontinuity is addressed at the end.

Write the Fourier coefficients asTranslation multiplies each coefficient by a unimodular factor and preserves the hypothesis, so place the proposed discontinuity at zero. Suppose the finite limits are $A=f(0^{-})$ and $B=f(0^{+})$. For $0<r<1$, geometric summation gives the Poisson kernel on the circle and the conjugate Poisson kernel on the circle:These series converge uniformly and absolutely for each $r<1$. Therefore they may be integrated term by term against the Lebesgue integrable function $f$. With normalized convolution, $P_r$ has multiplier $r^{|n|}$, while $Q_r$ has multiplier $-i\mathrm{sgn}(n)r^{|n|}$ for $n\ne 0$ and zero at $n=0$. More explicitly, at zero,The assumed vanishing of negative Fourier coefficients thus proves, rather than presupposes, the conjugate relation

We next show that the right-hand side is bounded as $r\uparrow 1$. The kernel $P_r$ is positive and even, and its normalized integral is one by its series. Its mass outside any fixed $(-\delta ,\delta )$ tends to zero; in fact its supremum there is $O_{\delta }(1-r)$. On $(-\delta ,0)$, $f$ is uniformly close to $A$ for sufficiently small $\delta$, and on $(0,\delta )$ it is uniformly close to $B$. Evenness places asymptotically half the mass on each side. The outside contribution tends to zero because $f$ is integrable and the outside kernel tends uniformly to zero. Bounding the inside errors by the one-sided approximation errors givesHence $(Q_r\ast f)(0)$ is bounded by the proved conjugate relation.

On the other hand, oddness of $Q_r$ givesFor $0<\delta <\pi$, differentiating $1-2r\cos t+r^2$ proves the exact identityAlso $Q_r\ge 0$ on $(0,\pi )$ and is uniformly bounded on $[\delta ,\pi ]$ as $r\uparrow 1$. Write $f(-t)-f(t)=A-B+e(t)$ with $e(t)\to 0$ as $t\downarrow 0$. The integral over $[\delta ,\pi ]$ is $O_{\delta }(1)$ by integrability. Given any $\eta >0$, choose $\delta$ so that $|e(t)|\le \eta$ on $(0,\delta )$. Positivity and the preceding identity show that the near-zero error, divided by $\log (1/(1-r))$, has limiting upper bound at most $\eta /\pi$. Letting $\eta \downarrow 0$ provesBoundedness of the numerator makes the left side tend to zero. Therefore $A=B$. This proves one-sided Fourier spectrum excludes jumps, and supplies the required conjugate-sum argument in full.

There is a point-value qualification to the phrase “first kind.” If it means finite unequal one-sided limits, the proof establishes exactly the stated result. If the definition also includes removable discontinuities, the literal statement is false for an arbitrary integrable representative: the function that equals zero everywhere except $f(0)=1$ has every Fourier coefficient zero but a removable discontinuity at zero. Integral hypotheses cannot detect a change at one point. Thus no jump is possible; equal one-sided limits need not equal an arbitrarily assigned point value.