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Eigenvalue of a convolution and a restriction?

Let $\epsilon>0$ be small. Let $\eta(t) = \frac{2\epsilon}{\epsilon^2+(2\pi t)^2}$ (the Fourier transform of $x\mapsto e^{-\epsilon |x|}$). Let $V$ be the space of integrable, bounded functions $f:\...
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Function that is (essentially) a self-convolution but not a multiple of a self-convolution

Call a function $F:\mathbb{R}\to C$ nice if it is of the form $F = f\ast \tilde{f}$, where $\tilde{f}(x) = \overline{f(-x)}$. (Of course nice functions are precisely those whose Fourier transform is ...
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Functions such that the *integral* of the Fourier transform is non-negative?

Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ be in $L^1$, with its Fourier transform $\widehat{f}$ also in $L^1$. What is a necessary and sufficient condition on $f$ so that $$\int_{-\infty}^x \widehat{f}(t) dt \...
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approximating differentiable functions with double trigonometric polynomials

Let $Q = [0,1]^2$. For sake of notation, let $$ f^{(i,j)}(x,\xi) = \frac{\partial^{i+j}}{\partial x^i \partial \xi^j}f(x,\xi). $$ Fix some non-negative integer $k$. Moreover let $f\in C^k(Q)$ if $$ \|...
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Existence of solutions to a series of integral equations

I am trying to solve the following integral equation analytically: $$ \sum_{n \geq 1} \left( \int_0^te^{-n^2(t-s)} f_n(s) \, ds \right) = g(t), \quad t \in [0, T], $$ where $(f_n(t))_n$ is the unknown ...
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About the Fourier transform of the logarithm function

I want to calculate / simplify: $$\mathcal{F} (\ln(|x|)\mathcal{F(f)}(x))=\mathcal{F} (\ln(|x|)) \star f$$ where $\mathcal{F}$ is the Fourier transform ($\mathcal[f](\xi)=\int_{\mathbb R}f(x)e^{ix\...
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Number of critical points of smooth functions on $S^1$

Let $u$ be a smooth function on the unit circle $S^1$ such that $\int_{S^1}ux_j=0$, for $j=1,2$. Is the number of critical points of $u$ strictly bigger than 2?
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How to show such result for generalized $ O(|x|^{-1/2}) $ function?

Assuming that $ \chi\in C_c^{\infty}([-2,2]) $ is a cutoff function such that $\text{supp }\chi\subset[-2,2]$, $\chi\equiv 1 $ in $ [-1,1] $, and $ 0\leq\chi\leq 1 $, suppose that $ f\in C^{\infty}(\...
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Maximal function on mixed $L^{p}$

Consider $ f_{j,k}$ to be a function in $L^{p}(l^{q}(l^{2}))$, that is $$ \Vert f_{j,k} \Vert^{p}_{L^{p}(l^{q}(l^{2}))} = \int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}} \left( \sum_{k} \big[ \sum_{j} \vert f_{j,k}(x) \vert^{2}...
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Orthogonal space of polynomials

Let $f \colon [0,+\infty) \to \mathbb R$ be a continuous function. Assume that for any non-negative integer $n$, the function $f(t) t^n$ in integrable in $(0,+\infty)$ and $$ \int_0^{+\infty} f(t) t^n ...
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Measurability of $L^{p}(L^{q})$ integrable functions

Let $ F: \mathbb{R}^n \times (0,\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ be a function with the property that $ \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \big[ \int_0^\infty |F(x,r) |^q \, dr \big]^{p/q} \, dx < \infty $ In addition we ...
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Vectors of complex exponentials span $\mathbf{C}^N$

Let $Q = [0,1]\times [0,1]$. Let $1\leq k < \infty$ and $\{(x_l,\xi_l)\}_{l=1}^{k}\subseteq Q$ be such that $(x_i,\xi_i)\ne (x_j, \xi_j)$ for $i\ne j$. Additionally, for $1\leq l \leq k$, let $n_l\...
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An asymptotic integral with complex phase

Suppose that $D\subset \mathbb R^2$ is the closed unit disk and that $f\in C^{\infty}(D)$. Assume that for all $\lambda \in (1,\infty)$ there holds $$ \left|\int_D f(x^1,x^2)\, e^{\lambda (x^1+ix^2)}\,...
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On weighted Fourier transforms

Suppose that $f\in L^{\infty}((0,1))$ and that there exists $c_1,c_2>0$ such that $$ \left|\int_0^1 e^{i \xi x} e^{-|\xi|^{-1}x}f(x)\,dx \right| \leq c_1 e^{-c_2|\xi|} \quad \forall\, |\xi|>1.$$ ...
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An asymmetric quadrilinear estimate

Fix $1<p<2$ and let $a_{i}=1-\frac{\theta_{i}}{p^{\prime}}$ where $\theta_{i}\in (0,1/2)$, $i=1,2,3,4$, and $p^{\prime}$ is the conjugate exponent of $p$. Note here that $0<a_{i}=1-\theta_{i}+...
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A simple bilinear estimate

Let $2\leq p,q <\infty$ and fix $0<\alpha<1$ such that $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}\leq 2-\alpha$. Suppose that $f\in L^{p}([0,1])$ and $g\in L^{q}([0,1])$. What is the optimal value of $t=t(\...
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Fourier series but different waveform

Given a nondegenerate smooth simple closed convex curve $f: [0,2\pi]\to \mathbb C \setminus \{0\}$ with winding number (around origin) $1$, and $f$ have zero mean. Let $f_n: [0,2\pi]\to \mathbb C \...
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Is square of Delta function defined somewhere?

I am wondering whether anyone knows if the square of Dirac Delta function is defined somewhere. In the beginning, this question might look strange. But by restricting the space of the test functions, ...
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A fractional weighted Poincaré inequality

Does there exists a constant $C>0$ such that $$ \int_{-1}^1 \lvert x\rvert\lvert\partial_x u\rvert^2 \,dx \geq C\, \lVert u\rVert^2_{H^{1/2}((-1,1))},$$ for all $u\in C^{\infty}_0((-1,1))$?
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Possible research directions in analysis? [closed]

I am an undergraduate student who loves basic mathematics in the analysis branch, but I have learned that some directions, for example, harmonic analysis, are already well developed and difficult to ...
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Surjectivity of a class of integrals in dimensions two

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be an open set and $G(x,\theta): \Omega \times [0,2\pi]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a positive continuous function. Assume $F:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ defined ...
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Why is this function in $L^1$?

I had a question about a claim made in the paper "Group Invariant Scattering" and why it is true. Consider the function $h_j(x) = 2^{nj}\psi(2^jx)$, where $\psi$ is a function such that $\...
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Singular integral operators acting on Zygmund class

It is proven in "Classical and Modern Fourier Analysis" by L. Grafakos (Corollary 6.7.2) that if a kernel $K(x)$ defined away from the origin on $\mathbb{R}^n$ satisfies $$\sup_{0<R<\...
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Riemann-Liouville integral of $f$ is zero implies $f =0$ a.e

The Riemann-Liouville integral is defined by $$ I^\alpha f(x)=\frac{1}{\Gamma(\alpha)} \int_a^x f(t)(x-t)^{\alpha-1} d t $$ where $\Gamma$ is the gamma function and $a$ is an arbitrary but fixed base ...
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Question on the existence of a certain decomposition method for real square matrices

I was working around with the decomposition of the multidimensional linear canonical transform (which is not even continuous w.r.t. the parameters) into a few fractional Fourier transforms (and other ...
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Given $a>0$, find $b>0$ for which $\|\langle x\rangle^{-b}|\partial_x|^{1/2}f\|_{L^2}\lesssim\|\partial_x f\|_{L^2}+\|\langle x\rangle^{-a}f\|_{L^2}$

I have asked the same question on MathSE. I was thinking about the following problem. Problem. Given $\alpha>0$, find all values of $\beta\geq 0$ such that the following estimate is true for all $\...
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Fourier transform harmonic oscillator eigenstates

The normalized eigenfunctions of the quantum harmonic oscillator are $$\psi_{n}(x)= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2^n n!}} e^{-x^2/2}H_n(x),$$ where $n \in \mathbb N_0$ and $H_n$ is the $n$-th Hermite polynomial, ...
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Fourier transform of Dirac delta distribution

Let $f,g$ be Schwartz functions on $\mathbb R^4$, we denote them as $\mathcal S(\mathbb R^4)$, one can then define the transform $V$ mapping $f,g$ to a Schwartz function $\mathcal S(\mathbb R^8)$ $$ V(...
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Does this sequence of functions converge in a distributional sense?

Let $f\in W^{1,12/5}(\mathbb{R}^3)$ (time-independent), let $K^{\epsilon}$ be a uniformly in $\epsilon$ bounded sequence in $L^{1}\cap L^{7/5}(\mathbb{R}^3)$ and let $$\tilde{K}^{\epsilon} := K^{\...
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Extracting the point mass measure of some type of positive measures

Let us consider the measure algebra $M(\mathbb{R})$ consisting of all Radon measures on the reals. Let $\delta_0$ be the point mass measure concentrated on 0, which is also the multiplicative ...
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A question on convergence rates of Fourier series and strict convergence

Consider BV functions on a torus. The Fourier partial sum using the first $n$ coefficients will converge to the function at every point of continuity, as $n\to\infty$. The convergence rate is $O(1/n)$....
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A unique continuation problem

Let $f\in L^{2}(0,1).$ Consider the following unique continuation problem: $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ccc} af(x-r)+bf(x)=0, & \mathrm{if} & x\in (r,1) \\ & & \\ cf(x+1-r)+df(x)=0 &...
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(Generalized) Uncentered Maximal Function $\tilde Mf$ in Stein's Harmonic Analysis

It is well known that on $\Bbb R^n$, equipped with the usual Lebesgue measure, the standard Hardy-Littlewood maximal function $Mf(x)$ (with respect to averaging on cubes or balls centered at $x$) is ...
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Vanishing convolution between density and compactly supported function

Find a pair of functions $f,g:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that: $f$ is smooth and compactly supported (say, on $[0,1]$ but this isn't crucial), $g(x)>0$ for all $x\in\mathbb{R}$, $\int g(x)\,dx=...
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A convolution type singular integral operator with log

Define a convolution type operator $T_m$ by $$T_m(f) = p.v.\int_\mathbb{R}f(x-y)\frac{\log^m|y|}{y}dy.$$ Here $m\ge0$ is an integer. Consider $f \in H^s (s > 0)$ which is the usual Sobolev space. ...
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What is the distribution of the following limit?

Assume $x \in \mathbb{R}$. We already know that $$\lim_{\epsilon \to 0+} \frac{1}{x-i\epsilon} - \frac{1}{x+i\epsilon} = 2\pi i \delta_x.$$ Here $\delta_x$ denotes the Dirac distribution. If we ...
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Decay estimate of Fourier transform of a compactly supported function

Assume $f(x), x \in \mathbb{R}$ is a function with a compact support such that its Fourier transform $\hat{f}(\xi)$ has a decay rate $$\hat{f}(\xi) \lesssim \frac{1}{|\xi|^\gamma + 1}$$ for some $\...
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Some density properties about Sobolev periodic spaces

Let $L>0$ fixed. Consider the space $$ \mathcal{P}:=\{f: \mathbb{R} \longrightarrow \mathbb{C} \; ; \; f \: \text{is infinitely differentiable and periodic with period}\: L\}. $$ For $r \in \mathbb{...
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Using Fourier series to prove $-\int_0^1 u_{xxx}u_x \eta = \int_0^1 (u_{xx})^2\eta - \int_0^1 \frac{1}{2} (u_x)^2 \eta_{xx}$

Let $u, \eta$ be smooth functions and $\eta$ compactly supported in $(0,1)$. Integrating by parts, we can easily prove $$-\int_0^1 u_{xxx}u_x \eta = \int_0^1 (u_{xx})^2\eta - \int_0^1 \frac{1}{2} (u_x)...
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Harmonic functions in upper half plane

Let $\mathbb H^+$ denote the upper half plane in $\mathbb R^2$. Consider the following equation \begin{equation}\label{pf0} \begin{aligned} \begin{cases} \Delta u=0\,\quad &\text{on $\mathbb H^+$},...
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Hilbert transform on weighted Sobolev spaces

Let $\mathscr H\,f$ denote the Hilbert transform of a function $f \in L^2(\mathbb R)$. We know that $\mathscr H$ is an isometry on $L^2(\mathbb R)$, but I want to know to what is the mapping ...
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What are (the different aspects of) harmonic analysis good for?

Let $G$ be a locally compact group. To the best of my understanding, harmonic analysis has three legs that all work perfectly in the case that $G$ is in addition compact and abelian, but have ...
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Prove integral inequality for divergence-free vector fields

Let $u$ be a divergence-free vector field $u:\mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R^ n$. Does the following inequality hold? $$\Big( \int_{\mathbb R^n} |u|^2 dx\Big)^2 \le C\Big(\int_{\mathbb R^n} |u|^2|x|^2 dx \...
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Hilbert transform on a Besov space

Consider the usual Hilbert transform of periodic functions $$H(f) = \frac{1}{2\pi}P.V.\int_{-\pi}^{\pi}\cot(\frac{x-y}{2})f(y)dy.$$ We know $H$ does not map $L^\infty$ continuously to $L^\infty$. Now ...
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Eigenvalues of convolution matrices

Let $h: \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ be a smooth function. Fix $0\leq s_1\leq \cdots \leq s_m\leq 1$ and $0\leq t_1\leq \cdots \leq t_n\leq 1$. Construct $A\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ by letting $A_{i,j}:...
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Analogue of decay of Fourier coefficients of a smooth function on $\mathbb{S}^1$

Let $\nu$ be the uniform measure on the unit circle $\mathbb{S}^1 \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, normalised so that $\nu(\mathbb{S}^1) = 1$. Suppose $\mu$ is a Borel probability measure on $\mathbb{S}^1$ ...
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Fourier transform either changes sign infinitely often far out or is continuous at $x=0$

I am reading a book "Fourier Series and Integrals" by Dym & McKean. There is an exercise (Page 106): Exercise: Check that if $f$ is a real, even, summable function and if $f(0+)$ and $f(0-)$...
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Equivalence of antiderivative in L1 sense and in the usual sense

We say that$\ f$ is differentiable w.r.t to $L_1$ if there exists a$\ g$ such that: $$ \lim_{h\to 0}\left\Vert\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h} - g(x)\right\Vert_1 = 0 $$ where $\Vert \cdot \Vert_1$ is the $L_1$ ...
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Example of periodic semidifferentiable function without absolutely convergent Fourier series

Is there an example of a periodic continuous function that is semidifferentiable (i.e the left derivative and the right derivative exist at each point), but with a non-absolutely convergent Fourier ...
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Point wise convergence of Laplace transform and convergence of functions

Assume that functions $f_n(t), f(t)\in C_b(R_+)$. For every $\lambda >0$, we have $$ \bigg|\int_0^\infty e^{-\lambda t}f_n(t)d t-\int_0^\infty e^{-\lambda t}f(t)d t\bigg|\leq C_\lambda n^{-1}, $$ ...