Use the convention
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that if , then is continuous and
Continuity follows from the dominated convergence theorem, since and the integrands are dominated by .
For the decay, first take . Choose a coordinate for which . Integration by parts gives
and hence
Since is dense in , choose with . The elementary Fourier bound gives
so the decay for implies the decay for .
The Parseval identity says that for , with their Fourier transforms defined by the Plancherel theorem,
In particular,
For the given radial function, as ,
while as ,
Using polar coordinates, local integrability of is therefore determined by
and integrability at infinity by
The assumptions and imply both and . The Riemann--Lebesgue lemma and the direct estimate give , while Parseval gives . Finally, for every ,
Thus
For , its regular tempered distribution acts by integration, and the distributional transform agrees with the function
The triangle inequality gives the uniform bound
If , then pointwise and every integrand is bounded in absolute value by the Lebesgue integrable function . The Dominated convergence theorem therefore proves that is continuous. In fact the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma also gives as .
For a continuous real function on , uniform step approximation on a compact interval gives a finite step function with small uniform error. Each cosine integral over an interval has absolute value at most . Therefore
First choose to make the first term small, then let grow with fixed. This proves the cosine version of the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma without differentiating ; the sine and complex-exponential versions follow in the same way.
Weakly null sine sequence in L1 Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The functions converge weakly to zero in . Indeed, every also belongs to on this finite interval, and the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma gives . However,
so does not have the Schur property.