Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 8 1 vii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Use the transform convention . The given Fourier inversion theorem givesHere 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 isThere 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 . Henceuniformly in . At an integer argument, is one at zero and zero at the other integers, so the expansion interpolates the samples exactly.
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.
When the continuous Fourier transform of an integrable function vanishes outside , its periodic Fourier coefficients are the integer samples of , with the sign of the index reversed. Projecting in and then applying the Fourier inversion theorem gives the displayed sinc function reconstruction. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality controls the reconstruction error uniformly in . Bessel's inequality bounds the shifted sinc coefficient vector, giving absolute uniform tails when the sample sequence belongs to .