Solution
Let’s start with a simpler case, . Then is also periodic with period . But a periodic function which converges as is constant, as shown here (link to add, the thing is broken right now). This lemma will prove useful many times.
Now assume that and are distinct. The idea is to check how changes when we move according to, say, the period of :
This is almost . Let’s make this term appear :
We get the following interesting property :
which indicates that, when moving according to , only the change is relevant, and not the change in , which makes sense.
By assumption, converges to a limit when , so converges to the same limit ; and so we have that :
. But this shows that is periodic with period , since is itself -periodic, so by the same argument as earlier, it has to be 0.
In the end, we get that and share the same period , so too ; by again the same argument, we deduce that is constant.

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