Use cycles-per-time spectral density, with frequency . The spectral representation theorem for a stationary time series gives the centered white noise representation
where disjoint increments are orthogonal. Put . Since the filter is finite, substitute each noise representation and interchange the finite sum with the integral:
The new orthogonal increment measure is . Its variance measure is therefore . The coefficients are real, so conjugation changes the sign of the exponent without changing the modulus. Hence
With angular frequency , the spectral density of a stationary process instead contains the factor . The convention explains its absence here. Invertibility is not needed for this finite-filter spectral calculation.