Rapidly Growing Fourier Integrals

DOI10.2307/2695270MaRDI QIDQ2764736zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erik Talvila

Publication date 11 February 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101013

zbMATH Keywords

asymptoticsFourier integralsFourier transformRiemann-Lebesgue lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma says that the Fourier transform of an absolutely integrable function on the real line tends to zero as the transform parameter tends to infinity. When the integral is allowed to converge conditionally, the transform can have arbitrarily rapid pointwise growth as the transform parameter tends to infinity. Smoothness of the function to be transformed need not decrease growth of the transform.

Review text

The well-known Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that if \(f\in L^1(\mathbb{R})\) and \[ \widehat f(s):= \int_{\mathbb{R}} e^{isx} f(x) dx \] is its Fourier transform, then \(\widehat f(s)\to 0\) as \(|s|\to\infty\). However, if we allow the integral to converge conditionally (e.g., as an improper Riemann integral), then the asserted asymptotic behaviour can fail dramatically. In fact, the author proves that for each sequence \(a_n\uparrow\infty\) of numbers there exists a continuous function \(f\) such that \(\widehat f(s)\) exists and is finite for each \(s\in \mathbb{R}\), and \(\widehat f(n)\geq a_n\) for all integers \(n\geq 1\). He also works out the asymptotics of a class of Fourier integrals that can have arbitrarily large polynomial growth.

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