Abelian and Tauberian theorems relating the local behavior of an integrable function to the tail behavior of its Fourier transform (Q1173804): Difference between revisions

The author investigates the precise relationship between local regular variation behaviour of an integrable function and the behaviour of its Fourier transform at plus/minus infinity. For a.c. functions \(F\) of bounded variation, with density \(f\) and Fourier transform \(\widehat f\), expressions like (i) \(\lim_{t\to\infty} [F^{(m)} (x\pm 1/t)- F^{(m)}(x)]/s(t)=c_ \pm(x)\) and (ii) \(\lim_{t\to\infty} [\widehat {f}(\pm t)/s(t)-\sum_ x d_ \pm(x) e^{\pm itx}]=0\) are compared for suitable constants \(c\), \(d\) and \(s\) regularly varying (in the Karamata sense). A very thorough and complete treatment of the above problem is given. The paper is extremely well-written, despite its level of (necessary) technicality.