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We extend the construction, originally due to Jorgensen and Pedersen, of spectral pairs {μ, Λ}, consisting of Cantor measures μ on ℝn and discrete sets Λ such that the exponentials with frequency in Λ form an orthonormal basis forL 2(μ). We give conditions under which these mock Fourier series expansions ofL 1(μ) functions converge in a weak sense, and for a dense set of continuous functions the convergence is uniform. We show how to construct spectral pairs (2(μ) of infinite Cantor measures with unbounded support such that\(\hat f(\lambda ) = \smallint e( - x \cdot \lambda )f(x)d\tilde \mu (x),\) defined for a dense subset ofL 2(μ), extends to an isometry fromL 2(μ) ontoL 2(μ'), a kind of mock Fourier transform. Our constructions do not require self-similarity, but only a compatible product structure for the pairs. We also give an analogue of the Shannon Sampling Theorem to reconstruct a function whose Fourier transform is supported in the Cantor set associated with μ from its values on Λ.
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In memory of Irving Segal
Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation, grant DMS 9970337.
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Strichartz, R.S. Mock Fourier series and transforms associated with certain Cantor measures. J. Anal. Math. 81, 209–238 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02788990
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