Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 2 41C a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For the two-periodic Fourier series, orthogonality of the exponential basis gives the Fourier coefficientwhere any interval of length two could replace .
Let for . Since is real,so and is a Hermitian matrix. For any nonzero ,The trigonometric polynomial in the modulus cannot vanish identically unless every vanishes. Since , the integral is strictly positive. Hence is Hermitian positive definite, which is the positive Fourier-symbol Toeplitz matrix result.