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Say we're dealing with magnetostatics ($\vec{\nabla} \cdot \vec{j} = 0 $). If we define $\vec{A}$ to satisfy $\vec{B} = \vec{\nabla} \times \vec{A}$, and we take the assumption that $\vec{\nabla} \cdot \vec{A} = 0$, then each component of $\vec{A}$ satisfies Poisson's equation ($\nabla ^2 \vec{A} = - \mu _0 \vec{j}$). This gives that the general form of $\vec{A}(\vec{r})$ is $$\vec{A}(\vec{r}) = \frac{\mu _0}{4\pi} \int d^3r' \frac{\vec{j}(\vec{r}')}{|\vec{r}-\vec{r}'|}.$$

However, if I take the divergence of the above expression, I should be getting $0$ based on the initial divergence-free assumption, but I'm not.

After product-rule expansion, I'm getting $$\vec{\nabla} \cdot \vec{A} = \frac{\mu _0}{4\pi}\int d^3r' \vec{j}(\vec{r}') \cdot \vec{\nabla}\Big(\frac{1}{|\vec{r}-\vec{r}'|}\Big),$$ where the first of the two product-rule terms went to $0$ because of $\vec{\nabla} \cdot \vec{j} = 0 $, but I still have that leftover stuff to integrate, and it's not clear why that needs to be $0$. Where did I mess up (or if I didn't, why does that need to be $0$?)

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There aren't two product rule terms - remember which variable you are differentiating with respect to ($\vec r$, in this case, not $\vec r'$).

That being said, a good way to handle it is to note that $$\frac{\partial}{\partial \vec r} \frac{1}{|\vec r- \vec r'|} = - \frac{\partial}{\partial \vec r'} \frac{1}{|\vec r-\vec r'|}$$

Which means that if you throw in a spare minus sign, you can switch that $\nabla \equiv \frac{\partial}{\partial \vec r}$ to a $\nabla ' \equiv \frac{\partial}{\partial \vec r'}$. Once you've done that, integration by parts (along with a reasonable physical assumption) should give you what you're looking for.

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