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.
By the Weierstrass M-test, absolute summability of the Fourier coefficients makes uniformly convergent to a continuous periodic function . Termwise integration is justified by that uniform convergence, and orthogonality gives
Part (ii) then implies . Thus the Fourier series converges uniformly to the original function, not merely to some continuous limit. In particular,
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.
Every sine term vanishes at zero, so . The one-sided values of the periodic extension of are and . The Fourier series converges at this jump to their midpoint,
This midpoint need not equal the arbitrarily assigned value of the periodic derivative at the endpoint.
The endpoint agreement makes the boundary terms vanish when integrating the Fourier coefficients of by parts. If denote these coefficients, then
These are exactly the coefficients obtained by differentiating the preceding Fourier series:
On every compact subinterval of the differentiated series converges uniformly by the Dirichlet test, since partial sums of the sine factors are uniformly bounded there. The Termwise differentiation of a Fourier series is therefore valid away from integers and gives on . At an integer the periodic original has a corner, so the differentiated series is not asserting the existence of an ordinary derivative there.
Use the real Fourier series convention
The constant coefficient is . Reflection about changes the sine factor's sign and preserves the quadratic, giving . Two integrations by parts, with , give
Consequently the Fourier series of a periodically extended quadratic arch is
The periodic function is continuous, including at integers where its value is zero. Its piecewise smoothness gives pointwise Fourier series convergence everywhere, and the summable coefficient bound gives uniform and absolute convergence.
We use the Van der Corput sum-integral lemma. Put and . The Fourier series of the periodization of gives
where integer endpoints have half weight. This is the Dirichlet-Jordan convergence theorem for a piecewise smooth, or more generally bounded-variation, periodic function. Here is , so the periodized function has bounded variation. Changing to the requested endpoint convention costs at most one.
Write . For , . Since is continuous and monotone, the reciprocal has bounded variation, and integration by parts in the Riemann-Stieltjes sense yields
The variation of the reciprocal is at most . Summing over gives , separating and using convergence of . For each endpoint, use
The symmetric partial sums of the first term are a constant multiple of , uniformly bounded in and ; this standard Fourier series bound follows by splitting at and applying Abel summation to the remaining sine sum. The second term is absolutely summable with bound . The same bound therefore holds for the whole sum of the integrals. Since is the ordinary integral,
No second derivative is required; monotonicity supplies the needed variation estimate.
For the Hardy-Littlewood approximation to the Riemann zeta function, take . On , and is monotone. The proved lemma says that the difference between the partial sum of and its integral over is uniformly in . Weighted Abel summation with the decreasing weight then makes the weighted difference , since its total variation on is . Initially for , the tail integral is . The bounded primitive of the discrepancy gives a locally uniformly convergent weighted discrepancy integral for every , continuing the identity to that region. Thus, away from the pole,
If the ordinary sum-integral comparison supplies the same estimate. At the formula is understood meromorphically. It approximates the Riemann zeta function by a finite Dirichlet polynomial, transfers exponential sum estimates to bounds in the critical strip, yields elementary near-one bounds for and its derivative, and supports estimates for the mean value of Dirichlet polynomials and numerical calculations.
Use the orthonormal Fourier series basis , indexed by , and the Hilbert space inner product . The integral operator is a periodic convolution operator. Changing variables and using periodicity gives
There is no extra factor : the paper's already includes the full integral, rather than its normalized Fourier-series coefficient. The adjoint kernel is , so .
A singular system of a periodic convolution operator is therefore
Indeed and . The unit factor determined by the complex argument of in is necessary when the complex Fourier coefficients are not positive real numbers. Both families are orthonormal and complete, since every . One may enumerate by , or order the positive singular values by decreasing magnitude.
The continuous kernel on a finite square makes a Hilbert-Schmidt operator, hence compact. Since is continuously differentiable and periodic, integration by parts gives, for ,
by the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma. In particular the singular values tend to zero. Nonzero multipliers imply both and : the range is dense, but the inverse is unbounded and the range is not closed.
Take the positive integer and put . From the preceding estimate and the absent zero Fourier mode, for ,
Here is the Riemann zeta function, and its displayed series is finite because . One may replace the last derivative norm by the given full mixed Sobolev norm to obtain the requested constant depending only on and .
An absolutely summable sequence of Fourier coefficients gives a uniformly and absolutely convergent Fourier series, with supremum bounded by the sum of their absolute values. Its sum agrees almost everywhere with by uniqueness of Fourier coefficients for integrable periodic functions. Hence
This is the uniform phase-mixing bound from velocity derivatives: uniform convergence for the continuous representative of the density, with rate . No uniform decay of the full phase-space distribution is asserted. The free-transport phase mixing acts by shifting nonzero spatial modes to large velocity frequency. If a convention allows , that endpoint needs separate assumptions or an argument: the harmonic series in this proof would diverge.
Use probability measure-preserving systems: is measurable and . Its invariant sigma-algebra is
Ergodicity means that every invariant measurable set has measure zero or one:
Equivalently, every invariant measurable function is constant almost everywhere. Indeed all rational sublevel sets of a real invariant function belong to , so the zero-or-one alternative forces its distribution to concentrate at one value. Apply this to real and imaginary parts for complex functions. Conversely, an invariant set has an invariant indicator, so the function criterion implies the set criterion. This is the invariant-function characterization of ergodicity.
For an irrational rotation of the circle, with , an invariant has Fourier coefficients satisfying
For the multiplier is nonzero. Completeness of the Fourier series basis therefore makes constant. Apply this to an invariant indicator to prove the irrational rotation is ergodic. A second example is the cyclic permutation of points with equal masses: a nonempty invariant set contains the whole cycle and hence has measure one.
The identity on with Lebesgue measure is not ergodic, since is invariant and has measure . Nor is rotation by on the circle: the set
is invariant and has measure . These examples also show why preservation of measure does not imply ergodicity.
Let be the Koopman operator, , and set
The Von Neumann mean ergodic theorem says that, for , these Cesaro averages converge in to the orthogonal projection onto the invariant functions:
For an invertible system, is a unitary operator. The Hilbert-space theorem states more generally that the Cesaro averages of any unitary operator converge strongly to its fixed-space projection.
Here is the requested invertible-case proof. Since ,
Thus the orthogonal decomposition for unitary ergodic averages is
On the first summand, . On a vector , telescoping gives
Because , approximation extends this convergence to the closure of the range. The orthogonal decomposition now proves the theorem for every . An invariant function is -measurable, and an -measurable function is invariant by approximation with indicators; hence the projection is the stated conditional expectation.
In an ergodic system, invariant functions are constants by the criterion already proved. Their orthogonal projection is obtained by taking the inner product with , whose norm is one. Therefore the ergodic limit is the space average:
The Birkhoff ergodic theorem states that, for ,
The limit is invariant, integrable, and has the same integral as . On a probability space convergence also holds in . In an ergodic system the limit is almost everywhere.
For the topological sharpening, take a continuous map on a compact metric space. Unique ergodicity means there is exactly one invariant Borel probability measure . The uniform ergodic convergence for uniquely ergodic systems says that every continuous real or complex satisfies
Thus convergence holds at every point and uniformly in that point. The continuity, compactness and continuous-observable hypotheses belong to this theorem; it is not a claim of uniform convergence for all measurable functions.
Use the Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalues and eigenfunctions on :
An expansion reduces the wave equation to independent ordinary differential equations
When , put ; each coefficient is
For finite-energy data and , a uniform spatial bound follows from the energy method, rather than from unjustified absolute summation of the Fourier series. The conserved quantity is
The Poincare inequality gives . Hence with for , and with for . Since the Dirichlet boundary condition gives , the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality yields
At , the first coefficient is , which is unbounded for some admissible data. For , that coefficient has an exponentially growing component for some admissible data. Thus all-time boundedness of a wave equation with a reaction term requires
At equality, boundedness for a particular data set requires ; the remaining modes are bounded by their spectral gap. Above the threshold, every unstable mode must have its growing component canceled, and any zero-frequency mode must have zero initial velocity. There is no condition on alone for arbitrary specially chosen data.
The printed reference to a limit needs qualification. Bounded oscillations generally have no limit as . If actual existence of that limit for every admissible initial datum is required, no real works: for every , choose with and nonzero pure oscillatory data in that eigenfunction. The boxed inequality answers the intended long-time boundedness question.
Use the Cartesian streamfunction convention , . In the creeping-flow regime implicit in the question's biharmonic equation hint, the Stokes equations are , . Taking their curl eliminates pressure and gives
The fluid occupies the region above the actual sheet; the perturbation calculation expands its boundary about . In the swimming frame the material velocity is . The vertical kinematic condition and the supplied Navier slip boundary condition therefore give, at ,
At infinity, and , with bounded velocity and no imposed shear; all fields are periodic in with period . The sign is important: a sheet translating at sees the remote fluid translating at .
Set , , , , and . The two dimensionless parameters are the small-slope approximation parameter and dimensionless slip length . With , the dimensionless biharmonic stream function for planar Stokes flow satisfies
Expand and . At first order,
The decaying first harmonic of the biharmonic equation has the form . The vertical condition fixes and excludes a cosine component. The horizontal condition gives
Thus and for every . The spatially averaged first-order streamfunction is affine in ; its Navier slip boundary condition forces . Therefore
This first-order slip independence of a transverse sheet is independent of slip length. Its surface tangential velocity and surface shear are both zero: and . This explains why the first-order streamfunction agrees with the no-slip boundary condition.
To find the slip-enhanced swimming speed of a transverse sheet, expand only the Navier slip boundary condition through second order. Put . Taylor expansion at the displaced boundary yields
Direct differentiation gives
Hence
Average over . The zero Fourier series mode of a biharmonic streamfunction is a cubic polynomial in ; bounded velocity at infinity removes the quadratic and cubic terms. Thus its velocity is the constant , and its averaged shear is zero. The mean boundary velocity determines Taylor-sheet swimming speed principle then gives
The even remainder follows because changing the sign of the amplitude is equivalent to a half-period phase shift. In dimensional form,
For the Navier-slip Taylor swimming sheet, the ratio of speed to the no-slip value is whenever : slip increases the swimming speed. The expansion is for fixed as ; it is not a uniform prediction of arbitrarily large speed if the slip length is allowed to diverge with the inverse amplitude.
Let be arclength, the unit tangent, and the local filament velocity relative to the fluid. The resistive-force theory force per unit arclength, exerted by the fluid on the filament, is
The parallel and perpendicular drag coefficients of a slender filament are proportional to dynamic viscosity. For radius and a relevant axial cutoff length , the anisotropic slender-filament drag from Stokeslet integration gives the leading logarithmic forms
The cutoff may be set by filament length or deformation wavelength. End shape and the choice of cutoff change order-one constants inside the logarithms. Slender-body theory also includes nonlocal interactions that the local resistive-force theory approximation omits. Typically , with ratio tending to two in the slender limit; this drag anisotropy enables propulsion.
Write . For a small-amplitude planar deformation, and the leading transverse velocity is . Exact inextensibility requires the quadratic longitudinal displacement of an inextensible planar filament: if and , then to this order. Its velocity is quadratic and has zero time average for a periodic material cycle without mean axial drift. Thus the fixed material abscissa in the question is leading-order notation; this correction does not change the averaged propulsive term below. An imposed mean translation would contribute its separate ordinary axial drag.
To leading nonzero order,
The time-averaged deformation-induced propulsive force of a periodic planar filament and power of a periodic planar filament are consequently
These are the leading quadratic functionals. Their signs refer to force on the filament. For example, gives negative , opposing the direction of wave propagation.
Let be an arbitrary smooth variation periodic in both variables. The first variation of the constrained functional is
Using integration by parts in and , every boundary term cancels by periodic boundary conditions. Therefore
The Euler-Lagrange equation is
For a nontrivial stroke with nonzero thrust, . Set and . Then , whose method of characteristics solution is . Integrating in time gives the travelling-wave stationarity of planar filament propulsion:
Here is an arbitrary static periodic component. It contributes neither power nor mean propulsion because the time average of vanishes. It can be set to zero when describing the active stroke. The wave must be compatible with both specified periods: .
For a pure travelling wave, its leading force and power are
Thus positive propulsion uses a wave travelling in the negative direction. Any smooth interior maximizer satisfying only the stated power constraint must have this travelling active deformation. If the drag were isotropic, and there would be no leading propulsion.
There is a qualification to the printed maximization claim: the variation proves stationarity, not the existence of an unrestricted global maximum. The bandwidth limitation in fixed-power filament optimization can be seen directly. Set , , and consider . The leading expressions give
At fixed power the formal quadratic objective increases with . Eventually that sequence violates the small-slope approximation, but the approximation supplies no numerical slope or wavelength cutoff with which to define the global optimization. Even within a strict small-slope neighbourhood, a sufficiently small admixture of a higher spatial harmonic can improve a candidate interior maximum while keeping power fixed. For example, retains the fundamental periods and exactly the same leading power, while its force is multiplied by . For fixed , taking and small keeps every slope small.
With an explicit admissible Fourier bandwidth or an additional geometric constraint, the intended conclusion can be made precise. For a finite set of nonstatic Fourier series modes proportional to , with wavenumbers and frequencies ,
This is a weighted average of . A largest allowed ratio is attained by a single travelling mode, or by modes sharing the same phase speed; their superposition is still a travelling wave. Thus the Euler-Lagrange calculation yields the requested travelling-wave form, while a global maximum requires a specified admissible shape class.
Use the Fourier coefficients
They are continuous for and bounded by . On compact subintervals of , the equation is uniformly elliptic with smooth coefficients. Local elliptic regularity at the flat vertical sides with zero boundary values permits differentiation and integration by parts there. Thus
For completeness, this identity also follows in the distributional sense without assuming boundary derivatives initially. Integrate on against and a test function of with support away from zero and one. The interior gradient estimate near a zero Dirichlet side gives on a nearby ball of radius comparable to ; continuity and the zero side value make that supremum uniformly over the support in . Therefore the boundary products and tend to zero. Move the derivatives to the test function before taking . This proves the ordinary differential equation, which makes each smooth in and yields the same classical identity.
The Cauchy-Euler differential equation has indicial roots
For the negative root is strictly negative. Boundedness as forces . Continuity at identifies
Because , the series converges absolutely and uniformly for . On compact subsets with , differentiated series converge as well. At each fixed , its Fourier coefficients equal those of ; completeness of the Fourier sine basis in and continuity in make the two functions equal. Therefore
This is also the requested sum over integers: take all coefficients with to be zero. Negative indices give redundant Fourier modes, and the sine vanishes. No pointwise convergence of the ordinary Fourier series on the top boundary is needed.
An important consequence is a forced zero trace at a quadratically degenerate boundary. Indeed the absolute sum is bounded by for , which tends to zero as , uniformly in . Thus on the entire lower side. It follows also from for every sine coefficient and completeness.
With unit constant bending coefficients and unit length, the quadratic elastic energy is
To find the first loss of positivity, put . The clamped conditions give and . Extend periodically with period one. The sharp periodic Wirtinger inequality gives . For completeness, expand the mean-zero periodic in its Fourier series . Parseval identity gives
which proves the inequality and its equality condition. The same holds for . Consequently
For , the straight filament is the unique minimum. Equality in the periodic Wirtinger inequality has ; the endpoint value eliminates . Integration and the position boundary conditions therefore give the first buckling load and modes:
At this load every such pair has zero quadratic elastic energy and solves the Euler-Lagrange equations. For these modes give negative energy, signaling instability of the straight configuration. The quadratic small-slope model does not select a finite post-buckling amplitude; nonlinear terms would be needed for that. This is Euler buckling of an elastic filament.
Rewrite the ratio of hyperbolic sines as
For , expand the denominator by the geometric series. Part (a) inverts each delayed exponential:
At each finite time only finitely many terms are nonzero, so this reflected-step solution of the wave equation is locally a finite sum. The first front travels from ; the second is its sign-reversed reflection from the fixed endpoint, with repeated round trips. At the delays coincide and cancel. At the sum telescopes to for .
An equivalent standing-wave Fourier series is
Its static ramp has exactly the sine coefficients , so cancellation gives the zero initial displacement in the interior. Both representations solve the equation away from the fronts and in the distributional sense across them; the convention agrees with Fourier midpoint values.
The function is even, so its Fourier series has . In the convention ,
Twice applying integration by parts gives, for ,
Therefore the periodic Fourier representation is
with periodic continuation. The periodic extension is continuous, including the identified endpoints, and piecewise smooth, so the Fourier series converges to it. The coefficients also give absolute convergence and uniform convergence by comparison with .
At , the cosine cancels the alternating coefficient sign; at , it is identically one. These evaluations yield
The first identity solves the Basel problem.