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<table><TR><TD valign="top">[1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  S. Bochner,  "Lectures on Fourier integrals" , Princeton Univ. Press  (1959)  (Translated from German)</TD></TR><TR><TD valign="top">[2]</TD> <TD valign="top">  A. Zygmund,  "Trigonometric series" , '''2''' , Cambridge Univ. Press  (1988)</TD></TR><TR><TD valign="top">[3]</TD> <TD valign="top">  B.V. Gnedenko,  "The theory of probability" , Chelsea, reprint  (1962)  (Translated from Russian)</TD></TR></table>
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<table><TR><TD valign="top">[1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  S. Bochner,  "Lectures on Fourier integrals" , Princeton Univ. Press  (1959)  (Translated from German)</TD></TR><TR><TD valign="top">[2]</TD> <TD valign="top">  A. Zygmund,  "Trigonometric series" , '''2''' , Cambridge Univ. Press  (1988)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD valign="top">[3]</TD> <TD valign="top">  B.V. Gnedenko,  [[Gnedenko, "A course in the theory of probability"|"The theory of probability"]], Chelsea, reprint  (1962)  (Translated from Russian)</TD></TR></table>

Revision as of 12:20, 1 May 2012

One of the integral transforms (cf. Integral transform) related to the Fourier transform. Let the function have bounded variation on . The function

(*)

is called the Fourier–Stieltjes transform of . The function determined by the integral (*) is bounded and continuous. Every periodic function that can be expanded in an absolutely-convergent Fourier series can be written as an integral (*) with .

Formula (*) can be inverted: If has bounded variation and if

then

where the integral is taken to mean the principal value at .

If one only allows non-decreasing functions of bounded variation as the function in formula (*), then the set of continuous functions thus obtained is completely characterized by the property: For any system of real numbers ,

whatever the complex numbers (the Bochner–Khinchin theorem). Such functions are called positive definite. The Fourier–Stieltjes transform is extensively applied in probability theory, where the non-decreasing function

is subjected to the additional restrictions , and is continuous on the left; it is called a distribution, and

is called the characteristic function (of the distribution ). The Bochner–Khinchin theorem then expresses a necessary and sufficient condition for a continuous function (for which ) to be the characteristic function of a certain distribution.

The Fourier–Stieltjes transform has also been developed in the -dimensional case.

References

[1] S. Bochner, "Lectures on Fourier integrals" , Princeton Univ. Press (1959) (Translated from German)
[2] A. Zygmund, "Trigonometric series" , 2 , Cambridge Univ. Press (1988)
[3] B.V. Gnedenko, "The theory of probability", Chelsea, reprint (1962) (Translated from Russian)
How to Cite This Entry:
Fourier-Stieltjes transform. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Fourier-Stieltjes_transform&oldid=25815
This article was adapted from an original article by P.I. Lizorkin (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article