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

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.