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Problem evaluating an improper integral $\int_0^{\infty} \frac{(\sin{2x}-2x\cos{2x})^2}{x^6}$ using fourier transform

This is a question from one of the past papers of my university which I am unable to do. I am not being able to do question 2 from below. Let $f(x)= a^2-x^2 \,\,\,\,\, |x|<a ...
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Solving an initial value ODE problem using fourier transform

I am a physics undergrad and studying some transform methods. The question is as follows: $y^{\prime \prime} - 2 y^{\prime}+y=\cos{x}\,\,\,\,y(0)=y^{\prime}(0)=0\,\,\, x>0$ I am having some ...
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Solving an integral equations using fourier transform

I have to solve the equation $\int_0^{\infty} f(x) \cos{(\alpha x)}\, dx=\frac{\sin{\alpha }}{\alpha}$ Using fourier transform. I know this is half of the usual fourier cosine transform, and so ...
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Fourier transform of $g(x)=x\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}$?

I have a problem with the Fourier transform of the function $g(x)=x\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}$. I need the transform to be itself a function of the Fourier transform of $f(x)$ and I don't know how ...
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Fourier Transform of a function under an arbitrary coordinate transform [duplicate]

Consider a function $f(x)$ and its Fourier Transform $\tilde{f}(k)$ given by $$ \tilde{f}(k) = \int_\mathbb{R}\!\!\!dx\; e^{-ikx}f(x). $$ Now, lets have the coordinate transform $\xi = \tau(x)$ and, ...
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Hilbert transform and Fourier transform

Assume the following relationship between the Hilbert and Fourier transforms: $$ \mathcal{H}(f) = {\mathcal{F}^{-1}}(-i ~ \text{sgn}(\cdot) \cdot \mathcal{F}(f)), $$ where $ \displaystyle ...
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When to use other transforms?

maple code int(g*f, x=-infinity..infinity) when $g$ is $\large exp^{i*t*x}$, Fourier transform between density function and characteristic function If $g$ are $x^t$, $|x^{t}|$, $t^{x}$, what do they ...
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Understanding analyticity

Assume $\omega , \mu \in \mathcal{D}'(\mathbb{R})$ are distributions with $\operatorname{supp}\mu $ compact, that are related according to $$ \omega = \varphi \ast \mu = \int (x-y)^{1/2}_+ \mu (y) \, ...
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Decaying Fourier transform and smoothness

Suppose that $f\in L^1 (\mathbb{R})$ and that for any $n\in \mathbb{N}$ there is $C_n > 0$ such that its Fourier transform satisfies $$ |\hat{f}(\xi )| \le C_n(1+|\xi |^2)^{-n}. $$ I want to show ...
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Convolution square root of $\delta $

I want to somehow classify the distributional solutions of the equation $$ f \ast f = \delta $$ where $\delta = \delta _0$ is the Dirac delta distribution. Clearly, by Fourier transformation, we ...
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Help solving $\frac{1}{{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}{{e^{-{{\left({\frac{t}{2}} \right)}^2}}}{e^{-i\omega t}}dt}$

I need help with what seems like a pretty simple integral for a Fourier Transformation. I need to transform $\psi \left( {0,t} \right) = {\exp^{ - {{\left( {\frac{t}{2}} \right)}^2}}}$ into ...
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Is Fourier transform characterized by its diagonalization properties?

Let us fix the following convention for the Fourier transform in $L^1(\mathbb{R})$ space: $$\hat{f}(\xi)=\int_{-\infty}^\infty f(x)\, e^{-2\pi i x\xi}\, dx.$$ We then have the following properties: ...
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fancy about inverse discrete Fourier sine and cosine transform (i.e. Fourier sine and cosine series)

In order to find $f(x)$ so that $F(u)=\sum\limits_{x=0}^\infty f(x)\sin\dfrac{\pi ux}{L}$ and $F(u)=\sum\limits_{x=0}^\infty f(x)\cos\dfrac{\pi ux}{L}$ , we can borrow the idea from Fourier sine ...
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Help me to understand the Gaussian blurring (2)

Here is an unknown luminosity function $f(x,y)$ and its integration results: $$\begin{align*} p_{i,j} &= \frac{1}{\Delta_{i,j}}\iint\limits_{D_{i,j}} \! f(x,y) \, dx \, dy,\\ \Delta_{i,j} &= ...
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Fourier transform of $\log x$ $ |x|^{s} $ and $\log|x| $

Can anyone provide or give an expression in the sense of distribution theory for the functions $|x|^{s} , \log|x| $? I mean I would like to evaluate the Fourier transform $ ...
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What does it mean to carry out calculations modulo $S^{- \infty}$

I have trouble making sense of the following remark that is given in a set of lecture notes I am currently going through on my own: " Oscillatory integrals are used for the study of singularities of ...
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Meaning of polynomially bounded

I am currently reading through some lecture notes on Fourier Transform and Distributions on my own, and came upon the notion of a polynomially bounded function. I am not sure I understand this ...
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Fourier transform in $\mathbb R^3$

I try to show that $$ \int\limits_{R^3} \frac{e^{i\xi x} d\xi}{\xi^2 - k^2 - i0} = e^{ikx} \int\limits_{R^3} \frac{e^{i\xi x}d\xi}{\xi^2 + 2(k + i0\frac{k}{|k|})\xi}, \;\;\; k,x \in \mathbb R^3 $$ ...
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Fourier transform of Bessel functions

I'm curious as to how the Fourier transform of the various types of Bessel functions would be calculated. The Wikipedia page on the Fourier transform gives the transform of $J_o(x)$ as being ...
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Evaluate $\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^2} \frac{e^{i \langle \xi, x \rangle} d\xi}{ \langle\xi,\theta\rangle}$

The task is to evalute $$ \int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^2} \frac{e^{i \langle \xi, x \rangle} d\xi}{ \langle\xi,\theta\rangle}, \;\;\; \theta \in \mathbb{C}^2 \setminus ( \mathbb{S}^1 \cup \left\{ 0 ...
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How do I find the inverse Hankel transform of $k^2e^{-k^2}$?

I am trying to solve: $f_l(r)=\int_0^{\infty}e^{-k^2}k^4j_l(kr)dk$, where $j_l$ is the spherical Bessel function of the first kind, for any integer l >= 0. Thanks in advance for any answers!
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What's the connection between the Laplace transform and the Fourier transform?

Both the Laplace transform and the Fourier transform in some sense decode the "spectrum" of a function. The Laplace transform gives a power-series decomposition whereas the Fourier transform gives a ...
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Connection between fourier transform and taylor series

Both fourier transform and taylor series are means to represent functions in a different form. My question: What is the connection between these two? Is there a way to get from one to the other (and ...