Cosine Products, Fourier Transforms, and Random Sums

DOI10.2307/2974641MaRDI QIDQ4870033zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kent E. Morrison

Publication date 11 August 1996

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411380

zbMATH Keywords

convolutionsidentitiesFourier transformssampling functiondelta distributionscosine products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38)

Abstract: We investigate several infinite product of cosines and find the closed form using the Fourier transform. The answers provide limiting distributions for some elementary probability experiments.

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