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Re: FourierTransform and removable singularities

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  • Subject: [mg75368] Re: FourierTransform and removable singularities
  • From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:20:15 -0400 (EDT)
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David W.Cantrell schrieb:
...

> Perhaps the best way to handle you problem would be to have the sine
> cardinal function
> 
> |                {  1          if  x = 0,
> |    sinc(x)  =  {
> |                {  sin(x)/x   otherwise
> 
> implemented in Mathematica. But defining that function yourself, it does
> not work as desired with FourierTransform.
> 
> David W. Cantrell
> 

Hi David,

sorry, I did not believe this. And indeed:

In[1]:= Off[General::spell];
        Sinc[t_] := Piecewise[{{1, t == 0}}, Sin[t]/t]

In[3]:= FourierTransform[DiracDelta[t]*Sinc[t], t, w]
Out[3]= 1/Sqrt[2*Pi]

In[4]:= TrigToExp[FourierTransform[
            DiracDelta[t - b] * Sinc[omega*(t - b)], t, w]]
Out[4]= E^(I*b*w)/Sqrt[2*Pi]

In[5]:= $Version
Out[5]= "5.2 for Linux x86 (64 bit) (June 20, 2005)"

Why isn't this the wanted result? Or did you have other (more
complicated) FourierTransform[]s in mind?


Regards,
Peter


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