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Does anyone know how to prove that if we want to make a single wavepacket in space we necessarily have to superpose a continuous infinity of frequencies? Any help much appreciated!
 
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A wavepacket is an integrable function, and the Fourier transform of an integrable function is continuous.
 
Thanks a lot, that helps!
 
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