Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
The sampling theorem, often referred to as the Shannon or Whittaker-Kotel'nikov- Shannon sampling theorem, is of considerable importance in many fields, including communication engineering, electronics, control theory and data processing, and has appeared frequently in various forms in engineering literature (a comprehensive account of its numerous extensions and applications is given in [3]). The result states that a band-limited signal, i.e. a real function f of the form
where w>0, is under reasonable conditions on the even function F, determined by its values on the sampling set (l/2w)ℤ and can be reconstructed from the samples f(k/2w), k∈ℤ, by the series