Questions tagged [fourier-transform]
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A probability distribution, with Fourier transform smaller than $C \exp(-ct^2)$
Is there a probability distribution $\mu$ (with reasonably nice density $f$ on $\mathbb{R}$) such that the Fourier transform (aka. characteristic function) $\psi_\mu(t) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} e^{itx} \, ...
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Fourier transform of a Radon measure [closed]
Let $\mu$ be a Radon measure on $\mathbb R^d$
with finite total mass: I guess that it is a tempered distribution on $\mathbb R^d$ and thus one may consider its Fourier transform. Now I guess that its ...
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Which is the difference between Fourier Transformation and discrete wavelet transformation? [closed]
I'm sorry, I'm pretty new about these argoments. Is there a difference between Fourier Transformation and discrete wavelet transformation? I looked in Internet but I didn't understand if there is a ...
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Simplifying an expression using tools from Fourier transform
Can anyone simplify the following expression? I guess something from Fourier transform can help:
$f(\omega) = \lim_\limits{R \to \infty} \frac{1}{R^2} \int_{r=0}^{R}{re^{ \omega r^{-\gamma}}} \...
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Asymptotic expansion inverse discrete Fourier transform
Let $\ell^1(\mathbb{Z})$ be the space of biinfinite sequences $f = (f(n))_{n \in \mathbb{Z}} \subset \mathbb{C}$ such that it is absolutely summable. The discrete Fourier transform or Fourier series ...
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Carleson's theorem: proof of a lemma
I am reading the paper of Michael Lacey called "Carleson's theorem: proof, complements, variations" 1, on Carleson's theorem in Fourier analysis. At the bottom of page 20 at the beginning of ...
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A question regarding Hermite polynomials and exponential operators $\exp[e^{x^2/2}p(\frac{d}{dx})e^{-x^2/2}]f(x)$
Is it possible to express $$\exp\left[\mathrm{e}^{x^2/2}p\left(\frac{d}{dx}\right)\mathrm{e}^{-x^2/2}\right] f(x)$$ as an integral transform or something similar? $p(x)$ is a polynomial.
$$\exp\left[\...
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When some Fourier coefficients are fixed, can we control the extremals of the function?
Let $n$ be a odd number. Does there exist any $2\pi$-periodic continuous function $f
:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ such that the following points simultaneously hold?
1- $-n\lneqq f_{\min}$ (where $f_{\...
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Riesz transform after linear transformation
I am encountering the term $\partial_x \mathcal{R}_x(f(x,y))$. I needed to do the following linear transformation
$$x' = a x+ by,\,\,\,\,\, y'=ax-by,\,\,\, and \,\,f(x,y)=g(x',y') $$
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Constant in Amrein-Berthier uncertainty principle
Let $S,\Sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ be finite measure set. The Amrein-Berthier uncertainty principle states that there exists $C=C(S,\Sigma)>0$ such that for all $f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$, $\int_{\...
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Laplace transform injectivity for different values of $p$
Let $y\in L^{2}(0,1)$ and let $\widetilde{y}$ be its extension on $(0,\infty
).$ Assume that there exist $p_{0},p_{1}\in
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Fourier transform of measures on $\mathbb{T}$
I'm currently working with Fourier transforms of measures on the $\mathbb{T}^n$ (more specifically in dimension two), i.e.
$$
\hat{\mu}(k) = \int_{\mathbb{T}^n} e^{i k \cdot x} d\mu(x)
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How to use inverse Fourier transform to get the original signal
Suppose I have a signal $u(x)$ where $x\in[0,2\pi]$ and the signal has following form in Fourier space,
$\hat{u}(\kappa)=\begin{cases}
\frac{1+i\tan{(\varphi_u(\kappa))}}{\sqrt{1+\tan^2{(\varphi_u(\...
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How to calculate Fourier transformation of eigenstates in CV quantum information [closed]
The position $\hat{q}$ and momentum $\hat{p}$ has $[\hat{q},\hat{p}]=i$.
And we set there eigenstates as $|s\rangle_q$ and $|s\rangle_p$ with eigenvalue s.
In the paper [Phy Rev A. 79, 062318 (2009)],...
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Transformation of Fourier Transform
Suppose that $f$ is a function with a Fourier transform, and that $g:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a smooth function such that $g\circ f$ has a Fourier transform also.
Is there an expression ...
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If there is an increasing bijection between two functions, will there be an increasing bijection between their fourier transforms?
Assume I have two independent random variables $X$ and $Y$ with distributions $F_X$ and $F_Y$ respectively. Moreover, I know that $F_Y= g(F_X)$ where $g(.)$ is a strictly increasing bijective function....
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How can obtain energy of a signal using stockwell´s transform?
The stockwell´s transform is defined as: $$S(t,f) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty x(\tau)w(t-τ,f)e^{-2\pi if\tau}d\tau$$ Where $$w(t-τ,f)$$ is the gaussian window.
I need obtain the energy of a signal using ...
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A kind of Discrete Fourier Transform
Given a $z\in \mathbb{C}^N$, the DFT of $z$ is given for every $k\in [0,N-1]_\mathbb{N}$ by
$$DFT_z(k)=\frac{1}{N} \sum_{j=0}^{N-1} z_j\, \omega^{-k j}$$ where I have denoted by $\omega$ the $N$-th ...
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Littlewood-Paley theory and norm estimation
In the paper "A Convolution Inequality Concerning Cantor-Lebesgue Measures", the Littlewood-Paley theory is used to estimate the norm of multiplier operator in Lemma 1.
It is claimed that Lemma 2 is ...
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Calculating hyperbolic Fourier series
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is it possible to uniquely express functions locally as infinite sums of hyperbolic sines and cosines
$f(x)=\sum\limits_{i=0}^\infty \alpha_i\sinh(i\cdot x)+\beta_i\cosh(i\cdot x)$
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Function samplable from the past and Hardy spaces
What I am ultimately looking for is a $L^2$ function $f$ on the real line that can be sampled from the past, i.e. for each $x<0$ there are $L^2$ coefficients $c_n(x)$, $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that, ...
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Is there a classification of 2D projective convolution kernels?
Is there any classification of all distributions on $\mathbb{R}^2$ such that they are equal to the convolution with themselves? i.e. given a distribution $\gamma$ under which conditions
$$ \gamma\star\...
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Is there an inner product on $\mathbb{F}_p\left[S_n\right]$ for which $\langle x, x \rangle \ne 0$ for all $x$?
Let $\mathbb{F}_p\left[S_n\right]$ be the group algebra of the symmetric group $S_n$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$.
One can define an "inner product" in the usual way:
$$\langle x,y \...
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Is it possible that a system of differential equation has a solution in time domain but not in Fourier domain? If so, why does it happen?
I have to solve
\begin{align}
&\frac{\partial h'_{1,1m}(t,r)}{\partial t} + \frac{2}{r} h_{1,1m}(t,r) = 0 \label{beta_0_1}\\
&\frac{\partial^2 h_{1,1m}(t,r)}{\partial t^2} = 0. \label{...
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Convolution of $\mathscr{F}\{ \log \}(x) * \mu$ with compactly supported measure $\mu$
As I read in this post the Fourier transform of $\psi(\lambda) = \log{|\lambda|}$ must be interpreted in distributional sense and it is given by:
$$\mathscr{F}\{\psi\}(x)=-2\pi \gamma \delta(x)-\pi \...
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Relationship between Fourier inversion theorem and convergence of "nested" Fourier series representations of $f(x)$
$\DeclareMathOperator\erf{erf}\DeclareMathOperator\sech{sech}\DeclareMathOperator\sgn{sgn}\DeclareMathOperator\sinc{sinc}$This is a cross-post of a question I posted on MSE a couple of weeks ago which ...
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Is this formula for 2D Fourier integral of diffraction kernel correct?
Well I have a function parametrized by $z$
$$g_z(x,y) = \frac{z}{i \lambda r^2} e^{i k r}, \quad r = \sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2},$$
where $\lambda > 0$ is real constant and $k = \frac{2\pi}{\lambda}$. This ...
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How to calculate the power transformation of a spectral density function
There is a problem I have been trying to solve for a while. Let $X_t$ be a stationary (univariate) time series. The spectral density of the moving average process $$X_t=\sum^{\infty}_{j=-\infty}a_je_{...
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Fourier transform of an exponential function with radical argument divided by a radical
I have $f(t)=\dfrac{e^{-i\sqrt{(t-t_0)^2+A^2}}}{\sqrt{(t-t_0)^2+A^2}}$ where $t_0$ and $A$ are constant. I need to take the Fourier transform of $f(t)$. I made few substitutions to take it to a form ...
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Decay of the Fourier transform
I have read this post (and similar ones):
Decay of the Fourier transform of a non-differentiable function
and I have the following doubt: If
$f\in C^{n}(\mathbb{R})$
$f^{(n+1)}$ is piecewise and of ...
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Fourier transform and rotations in 3d
Let $f\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^3)$ be a Schwartz function invariant under rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and let $\hat f\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^3)$ be its Fourier transform, i.e. $\hat f(p)=\int_{\...
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To show a function is zero, assuming some integral conditions on its Fourier transform
Let $f\in L^1(\mathbb{R})$ such that
$$\int_0^\infty e^{-yt}e^{ixt}\widehat{f}(t)dt=0,……(i)$$
$$\int_{-\infty}^0 e^{yt}e^{ixt}\widehat{f}(t)dt=0, ……(ii)$$
for all $x\in \mathbb{R}, y>0.$
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$|\partial $ as Fourier multiplier
I have the following nonlinear dispersive PDEs
$$i \partial_t u- \partial_x^2 u =|\partial_x| |u|^2$$
where $f$ is some nice complex-valued function.
I am trying to use the ansatz $u(t,x) = e^{i \...
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To find a DFT for complex functions on a semigroup
For a certain commutative semigroup of integer size $n$, $G=(\{1,2,\dots,n\},\circ: x\circ y\mapsto \min(n,x+y))$, consider all complex functions on it, denoted by $\mathbb C[G]$ or $\mathbb CG$. ...
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Discontinuity of the Fourier transform of $ x \mapsto (1+ x^2)^{- \gamma/2}$ for $\gamma \leq 1$
Fix $\gamma > 0$. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the Fourier transform and consider the function
$f(x) = (1+ x^2)^{- \gamma/2}$ for $x \in \mathbb{R}$. This function is in $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R})$ and its ...
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Parseval identity extension?
I have stumbled upon the following three-dimensional series:
$$\Lambda_p = \sum_{\underline{n}} \left(\frac{\left|n_1\right|}{\left|\left|\underline{n}\right|\right|_2}\right)^p \left|\hat{f}(\...
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Cousin of Fourier transform for rescaling and translating functions
Is there a cousin of the Fourier transform which obeys the following property: if I rescale and translate a function, then its transformed form, at each frequency, only depends on the original ...
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How to construct non-abelian functions?
I have found some functions $t_g, g \in G$ for cyclic groups $G=C_n$ which seem to satisfy the following convolution identity:
$$t_g(x+y) = \sum_{h \in G} t_{gh^{-1}}(x) t_h(y)$$
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Binary polynomial evaluation
Let $p$ be a prime number and let $P(x) = a_0 + a_1x + a_2x^2 + \dots + a_{n-1}x^{n-1}$ be a polynomial in $\mathbb{Z}_p[x]$ with binary coefficients, i.e., such that $a_i \in \{0,1\}$ for all $i = 0,...
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Precise decay of density through Fourier transform
Suppose $f(x)$ is a probability density on $\mathbb{R}$. Let $\varphi(t)=\int e^{itx}f(x)dx$ denote the Fourier transform (characteristic function). It is well-known that if $\int |x|^p f(x)dx<\...
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Critical exponent in Sobolev scale and singular continuous measure
Recently I started the following discussion about Sobolev spaces where I was interested in finding the maximal $s \in \mathbb{R}$ such that given function/distribution belongs to the Sobolev space $H^...
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Variance of spectral density is related to the gradient of signal?
Define the frequency variance as:
$$ \sigma^2 = \int^\infty_{-\infty}\omega^2 P(\omega) d\omega$$
Where $P(\omega)$ is the spectral density function, which is the same as normalized power. Therefore,
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Parseval's equivalent of Norm that includes a Projection matrix
I need to optimize the norm, ${\bf x}^H {\bf P}_{\bf B} {\bf x} $, where, ${\bf P}_{\bf B} = {\bf B}^H({\bf B} {\bf B}^H)^{-1} {\bf B}$, ${\bf B}$ is a known $M \times N$ matrix, with $M < N$ and $...
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A question about Fourier transform of a function defined by an integral
I have the function:
$$ G_k(x)_=\frac{1}{(4\pi)^{k/2}\Gamma(k/2)}\int_0^\infty e^{-\pi|x|^2/\delta}e^{-\delta/4\pi}\delta^{-(n-k)/2}\,\frac{d\delta}{\delta}, $$
for all $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ and $k>0$....
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Characterization of convolution operators via the Fourier transform
Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a linear and continuous operator from the space of tempered distributions $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R})$ to itself. The Fourier transform of a tempered distribution $f$ is denoted by $...
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Flat function with a spectral gap
I am looking for a sequence of functions $f_n,n\geq 1$ in $L^2(\mathbb R)$ such that $f_n$ is equal to $1$ on $[-n,n]$ and $\hat{f_n}$ vanishes on $[-1,1]$.
Actually, I would also like $f_n$ to be $...
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Parseval-Plancherel identity involving absolute value
Let $\hat{f}$ be the fourier transform of $f$.
By Parseval-Plancherel identity, for suitable $f,g$, we have
$$\left\|\hat{f}*\hat{h}\right\|_{L^2_{\xi}}^2=\left\|f\cdot h\right\|_{L^2_{x}}^2.$$
Let ...
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A close formula for a Fourier transform
I would like to calculate "explicitly" the following integral, which is a Fourier transform: let $\alpha>0$ be a parameter, for $x\in \mathbb R$, we define
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I(\alpha, x)=\int_\mathbb R \cos(xt) e^...
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Deriving spectral measure
I am reposting this question from Cross Validated as I have not received any responses.
While reading this book, I got stuck on page 266 where the authors found the spectral measure $F(du)$ of the ...
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Solution of a functional equation with cosine transform
What are the functions verifying:
$$\int_0^{\infty} f(t) \cos(2\pi xt)=\lambda \frac{1}{x} f(\frac{1}{x})$$
With $\lambda$ a constant ?
(Functions $x^{-\alpha}$ with $0<\alpha<1$ are solutions ...
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