294 CHAPTER 12. SERIES AND TRANSFORMS
The justification for this interchange of integration follows as earlier. You can discount∫|y|>M | f (y)|dy for M large enough and then use Fubini’s theorem from Theorem 9.9.4 on
Page 214 to interchange the order. It is the same argument in Lemma 10.1.1.
=1π
∫∞
−∞
∫ R
0cos(t (x− y)) f (y)dtdy =
1π
∫∞
−∞
f (y)∫ R
0cos(t (x− y))dtdy
=1π
∫∞
−∞
f (y)sin(R(x− y))
x− ydy =
1π
∫∞
−∞
f (x−u)sin(Ru)
udy
=1π
∫∞
0f (x−u)
sin(Ru)u
dy+1π
∫ 0
−∞
f (x−u)sin(Ru)
udy
=1π
∫∞
0f (x−u)
sin(Ru)u
dy+1π
∫∞
0f (x+u)
sin(Ru)u
dy
=1
2π
∫∞
0
f (x−u)+ f (x+u)2u
sin(Ru)du
Also, from Theorem 10.2.5 or Corollary 10.2.8, the limit as R→ ∞ is f (x−)+ f (x+)2 . This
verifies 12.14.You can come up with lots of enigmatic integration formulas using this representation
theorem. You start with a function you want to represent and then use this formula to repre-sent it. The representation in terms of the formula yields strange and wonderful integrationfacts. Two cases which are nice to note are the case that f is even and the case that f isodd. If you are only interested in the function on the nonnegative real numbers, you couldconsider it either way as part of an odd function or part of an even function. This willchange what happens at 0. First suppose it is even. Then
limR→∞
1π
∫ R
0
∫∞
−∞
cos(t (x− y)) f (y)dydt
= limR→∞
1π
∫ R
0
∫∞
−∞
(cos txcos ty+ sin txsin ty) f (y)dydt
= limR→∞
1π
∫ R
0cos tx
∫∞
−∞
cos ty f (y)dydt
because y→ sin(ty) is odd. Thus you get
f (x+)+ f (x−)2
= limR→∞
1π
∫ R
0cos(tx)
∫∞
−∞
cos(ty) f (y)dydt
= limR→∞
2π
∫ R
0cos(tx)
∫∞
0cos(ty) f (y)dydt (12.15)
In case f is odd, you get
f (x+)+ f (x−)2
= limR→∞
1π
∫ R
0sin(tx)
∫∞
−∞
sin(ty) f (y)dydt
= limR→∞
2π
∫ R
0sin(tx)
∫∞
0sin(ty) f (y)dydt (12.16)
Lets see what this formula says for certain choices of f . We need to have f be in L1 (R)but this is easy to arrange. Just let it vanish off some interval. First suppose f (y) = y for