The spherical source potential gives leading longitudinal displacement field . Apply the local solid-fluid P-wave transmission coefficient to its potential at a smooth interface. In hyperbolic interface collimation of P-waves, transmitted rays are parallel, so ray-tube conservation for a P-wave jump makes the leading coefficient constant along each vertical ray. This yields the displayed jump for the first nonzero derivative discontinuity of the waveform. Smooth transverse derivatives multiply rather than and are one order more regular. The construction presupposes the indicated one-sided derivative jump exists; a source smooth to every order may have no jump.
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