Unraveling the Mystery: Solving a Tricky Fourier Analysis Problem

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This seemingly not-so-harsh math problem has me stumped. I tried solving it every free minute I had this weekend but no trails or any combination of them led me anywhere happy. The little ba$tard goes as follow:

"Consider f: [-\pi,\pi)\rightarrow \mathbb{R} a function (n-1) times continuously differentiable such that f^{(n-1)}(x) is differentiable and continuous except maybe at a finite number of points. If |f^{(n)}(x)|\leq M except maybe at the points of discontinuity, show that the coefficients of the development of f in a complex Fourier serie satisfy

|c_r|\leq M/r^n, \ \forall r \neq 0[/itex]<br /> <br /> Edit: |f^{(n-1)}(x)|\leq M --&gt; |f^{(n)}(x)|\leq M
 
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Well, with that factor of r^n it sure smells like an integration by parts is involved.

Carl
 
Thanks for the reply CarlB, I didn't see it that way. I'll try to see what I can do with integration by parts...
 
Integration by parts it was! :biggrin:

Whenever you need a hug CarlB, I,m here for you.
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...

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