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- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!opusc!usceast!sweldens
- From: sweldens@math.scarolina.edu (Wim Sweldens)
- Subject: roots of a Fourier series
- Message-ID: <sweldens.711843912@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: Fourier, root
- Sender: usenet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- Date: 22 Jul 92 22:25:12 GMT
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- Consider the following Fourier series:
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- f(x) = sum_{k=1}^{infinity} a_k sin ( k x )
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- with a_1 positive.
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- Obviously f(x) vanishes at the integer multiples of pi.
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- Now: is there a condition on the coefficients a_k such that f(x) does
- not vanish anywhere else (i.e. has no roots in between the integer
- multiples of pi) ?
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- I know that sum_{k=2}^{infinity} k |a_k| < a_1 is a sufficient
- condition, but does anyone have anything better ?
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- + What happens if you add the cosine terms ?
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- Any help or reference appreciated.
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- Wim Sweldens. (sweldens@math.scarolina.edu)
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