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Dirichlet Kernel

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The Dirichlet kernel, named for Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, is a family of periodic functions of period two pi that can be written in several equivalent forms and that play a central role in the study of Fourier series. Convolving the Dirichlet kernel with any two-pi-periodic function produces that function's nth-degree Fourier series approximation, so the convergence behavior of Fourier series can be studied through the properties of the kernel itself, which approaches a Dirac comb as n grows large. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Dirichlet Kernel (Wikipedia)
  • In Branch: Analysis, Lead sentence
    In mathematical analysis, the Dirichlet kernel, is the collection of periodic functions defined as D n ( x ) = ∑ k = − n n e i k x
  • Proved By: Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Lead paragraph
    In mathematical analysis, the Dirichlet kernel, is the collection of periodic functions defined as
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