It is known that under special conditions, Fourier sine transforms and Fourier cosine transforms behave asymptotically like a power of x, either as x → 0 or as x → ∞ or both. For example (3),

where f(x) = x–αϕ(x), 0 < α < 1, and ϕ(x) is of bounded variation in (0, ∞) and Fc(x) is the Fourier cosine transform of f(x). This suggests that other results connecting the behaviour of a function at infinity with the behaviour of its Fourier or Watson transform near the origin might exist. In this paper wre derive various such results. For example, a special case of these results is

where f(x) is the Fourier sine transform of g(x). It should be noted that the Fourier inversion formula fails to give f(+0) directly in this case. Some applications of these results to show the relationships between various forms of known summation formulae are given.