Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 3 22G Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
Use the conventionThe Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that if , then is continuous andContinuity 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 givesand henceSince is dense in , choose with . The elementary Fourier bound givesso 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 byand integrability at infinity byThe 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 functionThe triangle inequality gives the uniform boundIf , 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 . ThereforeFirst 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.