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Parseval's Theorem: Fourier Normalization

You will note that we wrote (14) as an equality rather than as a simple proportion. This reflects the fact that we have been very careful in our choice of constant factors in (12) and (13) so that if is properly normalized,

So will be when computed according to (13)

We will now prove a slightly more general result known as Parseval's Theorem of which this is clearly a special case.

Parseval's Theorem:

To prove this, as with most theorems involving Fourier transforms, we need only use (10.5) and familiar integration techniques.

We proceed as follows:



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Wed Oct 11 21:10:55 EDT 1995