Calculating $\lim_{\lambda \rightarrow \infty} T_{\frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x}}$ in $\mathcal{D}'(\mathbb{R})$

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I am looking to calculate

\begin{equation} \lim_{\lambda \rightarrow \infty} T_{\frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x}} \end{equation} in the distribution sense. $\frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x}$ is not locally integrable near $0$, so I thought I'd write: $\forall \varphi \in \mathcal{D(\mathbb{R})}$,

\begin{equation} \langle T_{\frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x}}, \varphi \rangle_{\mathcal{D}',\ \mathcal{D}} = \lim_{\varepsilon \rightarrow 0} \int_{\mathbb{R} \setminus [-\varepsilon, \varepsilon] } {\frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x}} \varphi(x) dx. \end{equation}

I don't know if my proceedings are correct and even if they are, I don't know how to get past this point. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

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Let $T_{\lambda}$ denote $T_{\frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x} }$. We have for $\varphi \in D(\Bbb R)$:

$$\langle T_{\lambda}, \varphi\rangle = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\sin (\lambda x)}{x} \varphi(x)dx$$

Write:

$$\varphi(x) = \varphi(0) + x \psi(x), \text{ where } \psi(x) = \int_0^1 \varphi'(tx)dt$$

Then for all $A > 0$ we have:

$$\int_{-A}^A \frac{\sin (\lambda x)}{x} \varphi(x)dx = \varphi(0) \int_{-A}^A \frac{\sin(\lambda x)}{x} dx + \int_{-A}^A \psi(x) \sin(\lambda x) dx\\ = \varphi(0) \int_{-\lambda A}^{\lambda A} \frac{\sin(x)}{x} dx + \int_{-A}^A \psi(x) \sin(\lambda x) dx$$

The first term converges to $\pi\varphi(0)$ as $A \to \infty$. Note that the second term is an absolutely convergent integral (hint: outside the support of $\varphi$, $\psi(x)$ is just $-\varphi(0) \frac1x$ - integrate by parts and take $A$ large enough so that $supp(\varphi) \subset (-A,A)$). We can then write:

$$\langle T_{\lambda}, \varphi \rangle = \pi \varphi(0) + \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \psi(x) \sin(\lambda x)dx)$$

By the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma:

$$\lim_{\lambda \to \infty}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \psi(x) \sin(\lambda x)dx = 0$$

Therefore $\lim_{\lambda \to \infty}\langle T,\varphi\rangle = \pi \varphi(0) = \langle \pi \delta_0, \varphi\rangle$

Showing that $\pi \delta_0$ is the distributional limit of $T_{\lambda}$.