Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 69 2 C Solution 2026-10-06
The half-open intervals tile the line, so exactly one term contributes to . It equals one almost everywhere.
Choose the Shannon scaling mask, a -periodic low-pass filter of a multiresolution analysis which equals one on and zero on the rest of . On the support of its product with equals ; outside that support both sides vanish. Its Fourier coefficients giveso it also has the required symbol representation. The inverse Fourier transform gives the Shannon scaling functionThis sinc function has norm one. It illustrates why the Fourier transform convention in part B must allow transforms: the Shannon scaling function is not absolutely integrable on the line.