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Math 5588 homework 6 (due thursday march 2) This homework aims to examine the fourier transform of generalized functions, or distri- butions, more rigorously. Recall the fourier transform of a function f (x) is. Since |e ikx| = 1 the integral on the right hand side converges absolutely only when f (x)e ikx dx. Functions f for which the integral above is nite are called integrable. The fourier transform, as de ned above, is only valid for integrable functions f . This leaves out many important functions, namely generalized functions, that we have been applying the fourier transform to in class. For instance, the function f (x) = 1 is not integrable, so its fourier transform does not appear to be de ned (in class we found bf (k) = 2 (k), which is a generalized function). The delta function (x) is not a function, so its fourier transform is also not de ned as above.

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