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A distributional approach to Namias' fractional Fourier transforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Fiona H. Kerr
Fiona H. Kerr
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Gl 1XH, Scotland, U.K.
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Synopsis

A fractionalisation of the Fourier transform was developed formally by Namias. By workingin ℐ, we found that this theory could be made mathematically rigorous. Here we extend our previous results to the space ℐ′ to consider fractional powers of the distributional Fourier transform. The paper concludes with an application to an ordinary differential equation which shows how a distributional approach can sometimes be more useful than a classical approach.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 108 , Issue 1-2 , 1988 , pp. 133 - 143
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1988

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