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Re: FoourierTransform of a function defined in sections

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  • Subject: [mg70200] Re: FoourierTransform of a function defined in sections
  • From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:07:39 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <eg4soa$ffu$1@smc.vnet.net>

Eckhard Schlemm schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I want Mathematica to calculate the FourierTransform of a function which is
> defined by Sin[x]^2 for Abs[x]<PI and zero else. I tried and defined the
> function g as follows:
> 
> g[x_]:=If[Abs[x]>PI,0,Sin[x]^2];
> 
> That works fine. But if I have mathematica try to determine the
> FourierTransform by
> 
> FourierTransform[g[x],x,p]
> 
> I always get the error that the recursion limit and the iteration limit were
> exceeded...
> 
> what am I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Any help is appreciated
> 
> thanks
> 
> Eckhard
> 
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> 

Hi Ludwig,

1.) Don't use PI as a variable; it is too similar to the name of the 
constant Pi (3.141...).
2.) Mathematica 'prefers' UnitStep or Piecewise (I changed PI to z):

In[1]:=
g[x_] := Sin[x]^2*UnitStep[x + z, z - x]

In[2]:=
tmp = (FullSimplify[#1, Im[p] == 0 && z > 0] & ) /@
    Factor[FourierTransform[g[x], x, p]]
Out[2]=
(Sqrt[2/Pi]*(p*Cos[p*z]*Sin[2*z] + (-2 + p^2*Sin[z]^2)*Sin[p*z]))/
   ((-2 + p)*p*(2 + p))

This has got singularities for p in {-2,0,2}

In[3]:=
lim = (Limit[tmp, p -> #1] & ) /@ {-2, 0, 2}
Out[3]=
{-((4*z - 4*Sin[2*z] + Sin[4*z])/(8*Sqrt[2*Pi])),
   (z - Cos[z]*Sin[z])/Sqrt[2*Pi],
   -((4*z - 4*Sin[2*z] + Sin[4*z])/(8*Sqrt[2*Pi]))}
In[4]:=
fg[p_] = PiecewiseExpand[
   Piecewise[
     Apply[
      {#1, p == #2} & ,
      Transpose[{lim, {-2, 0, 2}}], {1}], tmp]];


You get the same with
In[1]:=
g[x_] := Piecewise[{{Sin[x]^2, -z <= x <= z}}]
etc.

Hope this helps,

Peter


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