Use the positive Laplace-Beltrami operator, . A flat torus is the quotient , where is a full-rank Euclidean lattice and the metric descends from the Euclidean metric. Its dual lattice is
If is the covolume of , the functions descend to the torus. Direct differentiation gives the spectrum of a flat torus:
The multiset includes one entry for each dual vector. In particular zero has multiplicity one. Writing identifies the dual vectors with , . Standard Fourier series on the unit cube then prove that these functions are an orthonormal basis of on the torus. If , its Fourier coefficients satisfy . Thus every eigenfunction is a linear combination of the indicated shell of frequencies, with no additional eigenvalues. Compactness gives the discrete self-adjoint realization, whose eigenfunctions are smooth. For real functions the two characters at become cosine and sine, giving the same real multiplicities. The opposite Laplacian sign would negate all displayed eigenvalues without changing the rigidity conclusion.
To prove two-dimensional spectral rigidity, let and recover its Gram matrix from its vector-length multiset. Let be the shortest nonzero length and choose with . This vector is primitive: a proper integer multiple would have a shorter lattice vector. Hence . From the spectral multiset subtract exactly two occurrences of each length , . The remaining multiset consists precisely of the vectors not on this line, including correct multiplicities at coincident lengths. Its least length is the length of a shortest vector independent of .
The pair is a basis of . Otherwise take a lattice point in a nonzero coset of and reduce its two coefficients into . The resulting nonzero lattice vector is not on , by primitivity of . But
with strict inequality: when both coefficients are nonzero the triangle inequality is strict for independent vectors, and when one vanishes its length is at most . This contradicts the definition of . Subtract an integer multiple of from and, if necessary, change its sign to arrange ; minimality of makes this reduction possible without decreasing its length.
The covolume of is also spectral. The count of lattice vectors with length at most obeys
For example, translate a bounded fundamental parallelogram of diameter bound : the union of tiles with centres in contains and lies inside . Comparing their areas proves the leading coefficient. The spectrum supplies this count. Since is a lattice basis, its parallelogram area satisfies . Therefore
All three quantities are determined by the spectrum. Equal Gram matrices give an orthogonal map between the dual lattices; taking duals gives an orthogonal map between the original lattices, descending to a Riemannian isometry of the tori. Isospectral flat two-tori are isometric. This is the two-dimensional lattice reconstruction from vector lengths; it uses lengths with multiplicities, not merely the set of distinct lengths.
Take and . A Diophantine frequency vector satisfies
Changing the norm only changes the admissible . The bound excludes resonances and quantifies the small divisors in the inverse of .
A periodic solution necessarily has zero-mean right-hand side, because the integral of each angular derivative vanishes. Conversely, if , expand its Fourier series:
The Diophantine condition makes every denominator nonzero. These are all differentiable periodic solutions: any difference satisfies and has no nonzero Fourier coefficient. Thus a solution exists exactly for zero-mean , and is unique up to a constant; setting fixes it. The analytic conclusion is on every strictly smaller complex strip, not necessarily the original boundary strip.
Shifting each contour in the Fourier coefficient integral toward the appropriate edge of the complex strip gives
Hence for ,
This converges normally, including differentiated series on any still smaller strip, and proves both holomorphic extension and . Real-valuedness follows from and the corresponding identity for .
An explicit bound is obtained by counting lattice shells. The number of with is at most
Put and . For , ; for use the bound . Since , this gives
Use in this constant when . The estimate is valid for every positive ; optimality of the exponent is not needed. For a unit-period flat torus, insert the factors in both the Fourier exponent and denominator and adjust the constant.
For a real weakly stationary process, extend its autocovariance by . The exact existence of a time-series spectral density condition is that its spectral measure of a stationary time series be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. Absolute summability is a useful sufficient condition, not a necessary one.
We use the conventional angular-frequency density on , restricted to by symmetry. Under the absolute-summability condition, the Fourier series and its inverse relation are
Thus . If a one-sided density is instead normalized to integrate to the full variance, use and omit the factor two in the inverse formula. This is the positive-frequency spectral normalization convention difference. With merely an integrable spectral density, the inverse relation remains valid; one must not assume pointwise convergence of the unweighted Fourier series. Its Fejér sums recover the density in :
If and are independent stationary processes, the cross covariances vanish, so
Linearity of the inverse Fourier series relation, or addition of the spectral measures of a stationary time series, gives . Independence can in fact be weakened to zero cross-covariances at every lag.
For the ARMA representation, away from an uncancelled unit root the transfer function gives
The usual causal case has ; the same expression holds for the two-sided stationary solution when . We work in the nondegenerate case and ; cancellations and zero-noise cases are obtained by the appropriate reduced representation or limits. Since independent white noise of variance contributes , put
Then
The white-noise addition to an ARMA(1,1) process problem is therefore the factorization
Define
Both are positive under the stated nondegeneracy conditions. An invertible choice is
These satisfy , , and . Hence
In particular, it is the autoregressive coefficient that enters the terms from the added observation noise.
To obtain a representation of the actual , define
The stable inverse exists because , and spectral filtering gives . Thus is weak white noise, and
Its variance can equivalently be written
When , also ; when , necessarily and , so the latter quotient should not be used. The model may reduce in order through cancellation. Boundary limits with or give and need not be stably invertible; the displayed stable reconstruction applies to the nondegenerate case above.