Use and interpret the regularity assumption to include with the continuous representative furnished by Fourier inversion. Write . The bandwidth assumption implies as well as , by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality on its finite support, so
is continuous and defined at every . The integer samples are precisely the Fourier coefficients of with the sign convention appropriate to the basis :
The completeness and Parseval identity for the exponential orthonormal basis on give in and
The last equality is the Plancherel theorem. Apply the inverse integral to the finite symmetric Fourier partial sums. Since
we obtain the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem in this normalization:
where the quotient is one at . This is a sampling expansion by periodic Fourier projection, not merely an almost-everywhere inversion. Indeed, the inverse integral of an error is bounded, uniformly in , by . Hence the symmetric finite sampling sums converge uniformly on all of . Moreover, the Parseval identity applied to gives
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality therefore makes the sampling series absolutely convergent at every , with its absolute tail bounded uniformly by . Thus the integer samples recover the function everywhere.
For the nonuniqueness beyond this bandwidth, fix and a nonzero smooth function compactly supported in . Let be its inverse Fourier transform and put
The function , and hence , is a Schwartz function. The two shifted spectral supports are disjoint, so , but its support is contained strictly inside . Every integer sample of is zero. Therefore and the zero function have identical samples but are distinct, providing a strictly supercritical sampling alias counterexample for every positive bandwidth enlargement.