The Poisson summation formula is a powerful and essential result in analytic number theory and Fourier analysis, connecting sums of a function at integer points to sums of its Fourier transform. Specifically, it relates a sum over a lattice (for example, the integers) to a sum over the dual lattice.
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The Poisson summation formula equates sample sums of a function and its Fourier transform. Exchanging broad and narrow sums can save work. Use the conventionFor every Schwartz function ,Both series have absolute convergence. A sufficient hypothesis is that is smooth and for all nonnegative integers ; its Fourier transform is then also a Schwartz function.[ref]
245C, Notes 2: The Fourier transform by Terence Tao. §3, Definition 32 and Exercise 54: Schwartz hypotheses and Poisson summation on the integer lattice
This assumption controls both decay and regularity; mere membership of an L1 space does not control values at individual sampling points, as periodization of an integrable function illustrates.Here counts cycles per unit length. In the angular convention used elsewhere in Fourier analysis, , so and the right-hand side becomes . Keeping the Fourier transform convention explicit prevents stray factors. Changing the sample spacing leads to the Poisson summation formula for a Euclidean lattice.