Absolute Fourier convergence from a square-integrable derivative Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
For a periodic absolutely continuous function with derivative in , integration by parts gives . Bessel's inequality and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality prove the displayed bound in the normalized circle norm. Adding the constant coefficient gives an absolutely and uniformly convergent Fourier series. Merely bounding individual coefficients by would not establish absolute convergence.
The absolute Fourier convergence from a square-integrable derivative uses more than the pointwise estimate . Periodic integration by parts gives
By Bessel's inequality,
Now apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality:
Adding the finite constant coefficient proves absolute summability. Since a continuously differentiable periodic function has , all hypotheses of part (iii) hold and its Fourier series converges uniformly.
Use the transform convention . The given Fourier inversion theorem gives
Here 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 is
There 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 . Hence
uniformly in . At an integer argument, is one at zero and zero at the other integers, so the expansion interpolates the samples exactly.
Part (i) and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality show
Direct integration of this finite Fourier partial sum gives
Moreover Bessel's inequality puts both coefficient sequences in , so their product series is absolutely convergent by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Consequently the cross form of Parseval's identity is
Taking also gives equality of the squared function norm and the squared coefficient norm.
Choose a singular system of a compact operator with , and . The Picard criterion, together with range orthogonality, gives
For necessity, expand a solution's component in in the orthonormal vectors ; its coefficients must be . Their square sum is finite by Bessel's inequality. Conversely, the displayed square sum defines a convergent Hilbert space series
Applying the bounded linear operator to the partial sums yields the expansion of in . Thus its limit solves . The perpendicularity condition is essential here: the Picard criterion alone characterizes the domain of the generalized inverse, which also includes components in .
A singular system of a compact operator consists of positive singular values and orthonormal vectors , , with
The form an orthonormal basis of , and the form one of . There are finitely many positive singular values for finite-rank ; otherwise . Obtain the system by applying the spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators to , choosing , and setting . The inner product identities verify orthonormality and the displayed relations.
With inner products linear in the first argument,
The normal equation for a linear inverse problem with the Tikhonov regularization penalty acts separately on each . Hence the singular-system Tikhonov filter gives the regularized solution
This norm-convergent series follows from Bessel's inequality and the bound . Data orthogonal to are annihilated by , and the minimizing solution has no component in . The same formula with reconstructs noisy data. In contrast, the unregularized inverse would divide by , with convergence governed by the Picard criterion.
Sampling expansion by periodic Fourier projection Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
When the continuous Fourier transform of an integrable function vanishes outside , its periodic Fourier coefficients are the integer samples of the continuous representative of , with the sign of the index reversed. Projecting in and then applying the Fourier inversion theorem gives the displayed reconstruction using the normalized sinc function, with each quotient defined as one when . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality controls the reconstruction error uniformly in . Bessel's inequality bounds the vector of shifted sinc functions, giving absolute uniform tails when the sample sequence belongs to .