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Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma

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The Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma states that the Fourier transform, or the Fourier coefficients, of an integrable function must tend to zero as the frequency parameter grows without bound. Named for Bernhard Riemann and Henri Lebesgue, who each proved versions of the result in different settings, it is a basic tool of harmonic analysis guaranteeing that highly oscillatory integrals against an integrable function vanish in the limit.

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The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that the Fourier transform, or the Fourier coefficients, of an integrable (L1) function tends to zero as the frequency parameter grows without bound, so the transform of an integrable function vanishes at infinity. 1
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    In mathematics, the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma, named after Bernhard Riemann and Henri Lebesgue, states that the Fourier transform or Laplace transform of an L1 function vanishes at infinity.
  • Principal Result Of: Henri Lebesgue, Lead sentence of the article on the result
    In mathematics, the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma, named after Bernhard Riemann and Henri Lebesgue, states that the Fourier transform or Laplace transform of an L1 function vanishes at infinity.
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