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Homework Statement



My book writes the following: using pair for the Discrete Time Fourier Transform:
[itex]-a^{k}u[-k-1] <---(DTFT)---> \frac{1}{1-ae^{-iw}} for \left | a \right | > 1[/itex]

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Well, for the simple similar pair such as:

[itex]a^{k}u[k] <---(DTFT)---> \frac{1}{1-ae^{-iw}} for \left | a \right | < 1[/itex]

The calculation is pretty straightforward regarding the GP series.
In the above however, I get lost where they get the result from.

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I've come to here, coming from DTFT definition and simplifying the unitstep boundaries to the sum of:
[itex]\sum_{1}^{\infty}a^{-k}e^{iwk}[/itex]

The question is, how do I get from here to the above?

[itex]a^{k}u[k] <---(DTFT)---> \frac{1}{1-ae^{-iw}} for \left | a \right | < 1[/itex]

I am thankful for any walk through you can give, since I spent way too much time on this problem. Is there something obvious I don't see about this one, or is the calculation of GP series I am mistaken about?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Finally I understood where I've done wrong. For anyone's interest, here it is:

[itex]\sum_{1}^{\infty}a^{-k}e^{iw}=-\frac{a^{-1}e^{iw}}{1-a^{-1}e^{iw}}[/itex]

From here one can solve the thing easily, which gives the correct condition that a>1 as well.

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That is wrong unless you have written the sum on the left incorrectly.

That is, of course, using the formula for the sum of a geometric series:
[tex]a\sum_{n=0}^\infty r^n= \frac{a}{1- r}[/tex]

[tex]\sum_{k=1}^\infty a^{-k}e^{ik\omega}= a^{-1}e^{ik\omega}\sum_{k=0}^\infty (a^{-1}e^{k\omega})^k= \frac{a^{-1}e^{i\omega}}{1- a^{-1}e^{i\omega}}[/tex]

But without the "k" in the exponential, it would be just
[tex]\sum_{k= 1}^\infty a^{-k}e^{i\omega}= a^{-1}e^{i\omega}\sum_{k=0}^\infty a^{-k}= \frac{a^{-1} e^{i\omega}}{1- a^{-1}}[/tex]