An abstract theory of Fourier series in locally convex topological vector spaces is developed. An analog of Fej{e}rs theorem is proved for these series. The theory is applied to distributional solutions of Cauchy-Riemann equations to recover basic results of complex analysis. Some classical results of function theory are also shown to be consequences of the series expansion.
A well known result due to Carlson affirms that a power series with finite and positive radius of convergence R has no Ostrowski gaps if and only if the sequence of zeros of its nth sections is asymptotically equidistributed to {|z|=R}. Here we extend this characterization to those power series with null radius of convergence, modulo some necessary normalizations of the sequence of the sections of f.
By using computers to do experimental manipulations on Fourier series, we construct additional series with interesting properties. For example, we construct several series whose sums remain unchanged when the nth term is multiplied by sin(n)/n. One series with this property is this classic series for pi/4: pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 ... = 1*(sin(1)/1) - (1/3)*(sin(3)/3) + (1/5)*(sin(5)/5).... Another example is sum (n = 1 to infinity) of (sin(n)/n) = sum (n = 1 to infinity) of (sin(n)/n)^2 = (pi - 1)/2. This material should be accessible to undergraduates. This paper also includes a Mathematica package that makes it easy to calculate and graph the Fourier series of many types of functions.
V. Nestoridis conjectured that if $Omega$ is a simply connected subset of $mathbb{C}$ that does not contain $0$ and $S(Omega)$ is the set of all functions $fin mathcal{H}(Omega)$ with the property that the set $left{T_N(f)(z)coloneqqsum_{n=0}^Ndfrac{f^{(n)}(z)}{n!} (-z)^n : N = 0,1,2,dots right}$ is dense in $mathcal{H}(Omega)$, then $S(Omega)$ is a dense $G_delta$ set in $mathcal{H}(Omega)$. We answer the conjecture in the affirmative in the special case where $Omega$ is an open disc $D(z_0,r)$ that does not contain $0$.
For 1<p<infty and for weight w in A_p, we show that the r-variation of the Fourier sums of any function in L^p(w) is finite a.e. for r larger than a finite constant depending on w and p. The fact that the variation exponent depends on w is necessary. This strengthens previous work of Hunt-Young and is a weighted extension of a variational Carleson theorem of Oberlin-Seeger-Tao-Thiele-Wright. The proof uses weighted adaptation of phase plane analysis and a weighted extension of a variational inequality of Lepingle.
We formalize some basic properties of Fourier series in the logic of ACL2(r), which is a variant of ACL2 that supports reasoning about the real and complex numbers by way of non-standard analysis. More specifically, we extend a framework for formally evaluating definite integrals of real-valued, continuous functions using the Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Our extended framework is also applied to functions containing free arguments. Using this framework, we are able to prove the orthogonality relationships between trigonometric functions, which are the essential properties in Fourier series analysis. The sum rule for definite integrals of indexed sums is also formalized by applying the extended framework along with the First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and the sum rule for differentiation. The Fourier coefficient formulas of periodic functions are then formalized from the orthogonality relations and the sum rule for integration. Consequently, the uniqueness of Fourier sums is a straightforward corollary. We also present our formalization of the sum rule for definite integrals of infinite series in ACL2(r). Part of this task is to prove the Dini Uniform Convergence Theorem and the continuity of a limit function under certain conditions. A key technique in our proofs of these theorems is to apply the overspill principle from non-standard analysis.