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The discrete fractional Fourier transform and Harper's equation

Part of: Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Laurence Barker
Laurence Barker
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Bilkent University, 06533 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: barker@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
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Abstract

It is shown that the discrete fractional Fourier transform recovers the continuum fractional Fourier transform via a limiting process whereby inner products are preserved.

MSC classification

Secondary: 42C15: General harmonic expansions, frames
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 47 , Issue 1-2 , December 2000 , pp. 281 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 2000

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