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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 8 1 vii Solution by
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Use the transform convention . The given Fourier inversion theorem givesHere is continuous, vanishes at both endpoints and belongs to . It therefore defines a continuous periodic function. Its Fourier coefficient at index is . By part (i),Pair this convergence with . Since that function has normalized norm one, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality yields, uniformly in ,The elementary integral is the sinc function,Thus the sampling expansion by periodic Fourier projection isThere is no pointwise interchange with an unproved Fourier series: the calculation first uses finite sums and then an limit.
The convergence can also be made absolute. Parseval's identity gives , and Bessel's inequality applied to gives . Henceuniformly in . At an integer argument, is one at zero and zero at the other integers, so the expansion interpolates the samples exactly.
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