Harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces Fourier transform Example
Dirac comb
Builds on Dirac delta functionSchwartz spaceFourier transform of tempered distributionsPoisson summation formula
Example
Let . The Dirac comb of period is the sum of Dirac deltas at the points , : where is the Schwartz space. It is a tempered distribution. Indeed, , so where . This is a bound by finitely many Schwartz seminorms.
Remarks
Its Fourier transform, with the convention , is again a Dirac comb: This identity is a restatement of the Poisson summation formula , applied to and using . For the comb is its own Fourier transform.
Multiplying a function by models sampling at spacing . By the identity above, sampling makes the spectrum periodic with period , which is the mechanism behind aliasing and the sampling theorem.
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- Fourier series concept
- Fourier transform concept
- Fourier transform of tempered distributions concept
- Function concept
- Schwartz space concept
- Poisson summation formula statement
- Laplace transform definition
- Heaviside step function object
- Dirac delta function object
- Dirac comb example
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| URI | m2://7KHGQFM8A9 |
| Kind | example |
| Writing | W0 stub |
| MSC | 42A38, 46F12, 94A20 |
| Instance of | Tempered distribution |
| Uses | Dirac delta function, Schwartz space, Fourier transform of tempered distributions, Poisson summation formula |
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