Mean-square completion of trigonometric polynomials

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Start with finite real linear combinations of , and with arbitrary positive real frequencies, and use the inner product . Product-to-sum identities give existence of these averages and mutual orthogonality of distinct frequencies. The squared norm is . Its Hilbert space completion contains an uncountable orthonormal set, so is not a separable Hilbert space. This construction does not equip all locally square-integrable functions with an inner product: compactly supported nonzero functions have zero mean square, and other functions have divergent or nonexistent averages.

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