For a statistically homogeneous and isotropic density contrast,
Using the Fourier transform convention
and translational invariance gives
with
At one point,
For a spherical top-hat volume ,
The overlap of two radius- balls separated by is
Therefore
For ,
Thus
This calculation assumes that the observed galaxies trace the matter field with unit, scale-independent galaxy bias, and that the fitted power law remains valid throughout the top-hat separations.
When is approximately constant, , and exponential expansion gives the constant Hubble parameter . Take the spatial Fourier transform
Since
each independent inflationary scalar Fourier mode satisfies
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that the Fourier transform of an function is continuous and tends to zero at infinity.
For a Schwartz function , differentiation under the integral and integration by parts give
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma bounds the right side by an seminorm of . Every Schwartz seminorm of is therefore bounded by finitely many Schwartz seminorms of . Hence the Fourier transform maps continuously into itself.
Taking the Fourier transform of a derivative gives
Thus, away from ,
This formula determines the solution uniquely; a distribution supported only at cannot belong to unless it is zero.
For , the Fourier transform estimate and local integrability of in three dimensions control the squared norm. For ,
The Plancherel theorem therefore yields . Finally the Sobolev embedding theorem in three dimensions gives when , namely when .
With the stated Fourier transform convention, Fourier inversion gives
For , close the contour in the upper half-plane. Jordan lemma removes the semicircle contribution, and the only enclosed pole is . Its residue is
The residue theorem therefore yields
Put
If is prime, then . Since is supported on , the only divisor of contributing to is , and . Every summand is nonnegative, so
Let
Since is the Fourier transform of , the Fourier inversion theorem gives the Fourier representation of a smooth Selberg weight
Expanding the square, interchanging the absolutely convergent sums and integrals, and using
we obtain
The error is because the support of restricts both divisors to . The main factor is
and its Euler product is
It remains to estimate the integral using the assumed zeta-factor bound. The transform is a Schwartz function, since is smooth and compactly supported. We may therefore truncate to , losing an arbitrarily large negative power of . Uniformly in the needed truncated range, the standard estimates near the pole of the Riemann zeta function give
and
After multiplication, one net factor remains. The polynomial factors in are integrable against the rapidly decreasing , and choosing as a sufficiently large power of makes the tails negligible. Hence
Since and ,
This proves the short-interval prime upper bound from a smooth divisor weight.
The Euler-Lagrange equation is
After a spatial Fourier transform and the change to conformal time, , this becomes
For the exact de Sitter spacetime scale factor , one has . Setting therefore cancels both the friction term and the effective mass term, leaving
This is the special cancellation for a conformally coupled scalar field.
Under the Fourier transform, the operator is the Fourier multiplier operator
Its symbol is purely imaginary because is real. Consequently is skew-adjoint on with common domain and generates the strongly continuous unitary group
The Plancherel theorem gives , so every . Products of the frozen groups are also unitary; hence this is a stable family of semigroup generators with constants .
For ,
Since , the map is continuously differentiable from to . All hypotheses from part f are satisfied, so an evolution family exists on every finite interval .
In this commuting Fourier multiplier operator example the solution operator can also be written explicitly:
Its multiplier has absolute value one, directly confirming strong continuity, the evolution family law, preservation of , and the required derivatives. The equation combines the dispersive Airy equation with a time-dependent linear transport equation.
The angular-frequency Fourier transform and its inverse on are
It extends to a tempered distribution by duality:
Let contain the support of . Choose a cutoff function that equals one near . It makes
well-defined, and differentiating the parameter under the pairing gives
Thus the Fourier transform of a compactly supported distribution is a smooth function. Since a compactly supported distribution has finite order, some and satisfy
Applying this estimate to the exponential yields .
Now take , multiply by a cutoff function supported in and equal to one near , and regard the result as an element of . Choose so large that
is Lebesgue integrable. The inverse Fourier transform is a bounded continuous function, and the Fourier transform of a derivative gives
as a distributional identity. This is the Bessel potential proof of the structure theorem for compactly supported distributions.
The function itself need not have compact support. Choose another cutoff equal to one near . Then . Repeatedly using
expresses as a finite sum , where every coefficient is continuous and compactly supported in .
Use under the Fourier transform and the reality conditions and . With , the quadratic free energy is
where
The opposite imaginary off-diagonal entries make a Hermitian matrix. Reversing the Fourier-sign convention reverses both of those signs without changing any correlator.
For , the Sobolev space consists of tempered distributions such that
For a multi-index ,
Since
we obtain the Sobolev derivative estimate
Thus differentiation is bounded and linear between the stated spaces.
Taking the Fourier transform of
gives
The only possible solution is therefore
Moreover,
This proves existence, uniqueness, and bounded dependence. Conversely, maps boundedly to , so
is a linear isomorphism with inverse multiplier . This is the massive Laplacian isomorphism on Sobolev spaces.
Finally, the assumed estimate and Plancherel theorem imply
Thus is bounded in . The functions and all their first derivatives are supported in the fixed bounded set . Their bounds give uniform translation estimates
for and . Tight support and the Rellich-Kondrashov compactness theorem for H01, equivalently the Fourier compactness criterion, therefore provide a common subsequence for which and every first derivative converge strongly in . Hence
This is compactness from bounded support and an H2 bound.
For the stated angular-frequency Fourier transform convention, the convolution theorem gives
The Fourier inversion theorem and the assumed absolute integrability therefore imply
Since and the principal argument is ,
All logarithms are , .
Take the spatial Fourier transform of the wave equation. The transformed initial-value problem is
and hence
Part (c) and the convolution theorem turn the first term into
For the second term, choose with . Part (b) says , so
Part (c) now makes its inverse transform
Combining the two terms gives the D'Alembert formula
Let and . Part (c) makes and independent identically distributed exponential variables of rate . The change of variables has Jacobian , and integrating over gives density one for . Therefore the uniform ratio of independent exponential variables gives
By the Fourier inversion theorem and Fubini's theorem,
Thus multiplication of Fourier transforms corresponds to the convolution , which is the convolution theorem in the convention used here.
Take the Fourier transform in . The wave equation becomes the ordinary differential equation
with initial data and . Therefore
Part (c) and the Translation property of the Fourier transform invert the first term to
For the second term choose an antiderivative of . By part (b), , and hence
Its inverse transform is
Combining the terms gives the D'Alembert formula
Take the Fourier transform in . Since , the transformed heat equation is
Therefore
The given transform pair and the convolution theorem yield the heat-kernel solution
For a real field, . The stated Fourier transform gives
Using
in both quadratic terms yields
After a spatial Fourier transform, the preceding equation is
The constant particular solution is . Hence the Sachs-Wolfe combination
contains only the homogeneous harmonic oscillator modes and satisfies
For adiabatic initial conditions on large scales, and at the start of matter domination. Up to an irrelevant choice of the phase origin,
Thus the radiation acoustic transfer function is flat at as and oscillates on smaller scales. Projection onto the sky produces a large-angle Sachs-Wolfe plateau and, after the full photon-baryon physics is included, the acoustic structure of the Cosmic microwave background power spectrum.
The baryon transfer function should also oscillate soon after cosmological recombination: before decoupling, Thomson scattering forced baryons to share the acoustic motion of the photon-baryon fluid, and recombination does not instantly erase the resulting density pattern.
Let the photon phase-space distribution be a Planck distribution whose local temperature is . In the absence of collisions, Liouville theorem says that the distribution is constant along a photon null geodesic. Linearizing about the homogeneous distribution and using gives
A spatial Fourier transform sends to , so
This is the Free-streaming photon Boltzmann equation: the second term transports angular structure, while the last term is the gravitational redshift source.