A dimensionally continued Poisson summation formula

DOI10.1007/S00041-011-9207-0MaRDI QIDQ2428482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 26 April 2012

Published in The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3790

Fourier transform Poisson summation formula theta functions

Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms (11F30) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38)

Abstract: We generalize the standard Poisson summation formula for lattices so that it operates on the level of theta series, allowing us to introduce noninteger dimension parameters (using the dimensionally continued Fourier transform). When combined with one of the proofs of the Jacobi imaginary transformation of theta functions that does not use the Poisson summation formula, our proof of this generalized Poisson summation formula also provides a new proof of the standard Poisson summation formula for dimensions greater than 2 (with appropriate hypotheses on the function being summed). In general, our methods work to establish the (Voronoi) summation formulae associated with functions satisfying (modular) transformations of the Jacobi imaginary type by means of a density argument (as opposed to the usual Mellin transform approach). In particular, we construct a family of generalized theta series from Jacobi theta functions from which these summation formulae can be obtained. This family contains several families of modular forms, but is significantly more general than any of them. Our result also relaxes several of the hypotheses in the standard statements of these summation formulae. The density result we prove for Gaussians in the Schwartz space may be of independent interest.

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The classic Poisson summation formula for the integer lattice \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) has many generalisations, in particular to arbitrary lattices in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) and to linear functionals such as distributions or measures. Recent applications include mathematical quasicrystals via diffraction theory (compare [\textit{J. C. Lagarias}, in: Directions in mathematical quasicrystals. Providence, RI: AMS, American Mathematical Society. CRM Monogr. Ser. 13, 61--93 (2000; Zbl 1161.52312)]) or radially symmetric structures (see [\textit{M. Baake}, \textit{D. Frettlöh} and \textit{U. Grimm}, J. Geom. Phys. 57, No. 5, 1331--1343 (2007; Zbl 1185.37029)]). In all these cases, the parameter \(d\) is an integer. Motivated by a problem in condensed matter physics (namely the dimensional continuation of certain electrostatic lattice sums), the author develops a reformulation of the PSF for radially symmetric even Schwartz functions where \(d \leq 1\) is a continuous parameter (Thm. 1). The proof is based on various relations to and among lattice theta series, including Jacobi's formula that relates the theta functions of a lattice and its dual. While the reciprocity formula for the classic theta functions is often derived from the PSF, there are independent proofs as well (which is the entry point of this approach). Various summation formula (see Thm. 2) are then derived through a family of generalised theta series, which also includes certain modular forms. Enroute, Lemma 2 establishes a connection between Gaussian functions and even Schwartz functions. Possible applications and extensions, as well as the relation to known results, is carefully documented. For an interesting extension of the `quasicrystal PSF' from the reviewer's paper [Zbl 1161.52312], the reader is also referred to \textit{C. Richard} [J. Math. Phys. 44, No. 10, 4436--4449 (2003; Zbl 1062.52022)].

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