
Continuous Hahn functions
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property would be e2kTxp(x), for
k
E
Z.
However for
k
#
0,
the method
we used here to find an integral transform pair would fail, since the
method depends on the use of the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma and the
Dirichlet kernel, which can no longer be used in case
k
#
0.
This can,
e.g., be seen from Lemma
5.11,
where the terms in front of
~xl~(~-p)
would contain a factor e2ICTx. So this gives a heuristic argument for the
choice
(5.3)
of the i-periodic function.
Let
f
be a continuous function satisfying,
and let
f
be the vector
f(d
=
@)
We define, for x
E
R,
an operator
F
by
To verify that this is a well-defined expression, we determine the be-
haviour of cpp(x) and Wo(p) for p
+
m
and p
0.
From Thomae's
transformation (Andrews et al., 1999, Cor. 3.3.6) we find
And from (5.7) we obtain
Then we see that the integral in (5.13) converges absolutely for
f
satis-
fying (5.12).
For a continuous function g satisfying
we define, for p
2
0,
an operator
6
by
cp*
(4
W(P)
=
J
g(x)
(v;(x))
WW~X.
R