uniqueness of Fourier expansion
If a real function , Riemann integrable on the interval , may be expressed as sum of a trigonometric series
(1) |
where the series of the coefficients converges absolutely, then the series (1) converges uniformly on the interval and can be integrated termwise (http://planetmath.org/SumFunctionOfSeries). The same concerns apparently the series which are gotten by multiplying the equation (1) by and by ; the results of the integrations determine for the coefficients and the unique values
for any . So the Fourier series of is unique.
As a consequence, we can infer that the well-known goniometric formula
presents the Fourier series of the even function .