Understanding the Convergence of Fourier Series for Periodic Functions

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Hey. I'm looking for a proof of:
Theorem: If f \in C^1(\mathbb{T}), then the Fourier series converges to f uniformly (and hence also pointwise.)

I have looked around for it, googled, etc, but I only found proofs which used theorem they did not prove. (Or I misunderstood what they said.)
I'd really like to truly understand why they converge, be it uniformly or pointwise. If anyone could either link me to a proof or do it, it'd be great. Thanks.
 
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Check Folland's "Fourier analysis and applications", Theorem 2.5
 
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Sorry, I don't know what C^1(T) is. Are these complex functions? And what domain is T?
 
micromass said:
Check Folland's "Fourier analysis and applications", Theorem 2.5
Completely answered my question. Thanks a lot!

brmath said:
Sorry, I don't know what C^1(T) is. Are these complex functions? And what domain is T?
C^k is the set of functions such that: There exist continuous derivatives of 0th, 1st, 2nd... and kth order.
C^1(T) probably means that f is periodic of period 2π or something of the sorts. The number of senseful meanings is not that big.
 
Thanks Swimmingly. ThenC^1 would be real functions that have just one continuous derivative and you guess T means they are periodic. I would guess if they are not periodic one could construct examples where the Fourier series wouldn't converge at all. There is always the famous {x^2sin1/x} which has exactly one continuous derivative at 0.
 
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Bold faced T usually refers to a torus - in this case I assume the one dimensional torus (which is the circle, equivalently we are discussing periodic functions on the real line)
 
Office_Shredder- Thanks for the clarification. He most likely meant periodic functions on the real line. I personally am more than willing to consider functions on the unit circle -- quite often it helps.

Also, for all, please substitute x^3sin1/x for x^2sin1/x as per my previous post. The first does have one continuous derivative at x = 0. The second has only a discontinuous derivative at x = 0.
 
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