Saturday, 18 June 2011

Making sense of the Fourier transform of the product of two functions

The Fourier transform of the product of two functions f(x) and g(x) is
given as:



mathcalF[f(x)g(x)]=int+inftyinftyF(omegaprime)G(omegaomegaprime)domegaprime;=;mboxconvolutionof;;F(omegaprime)G(omegaprime)



where F(omegaprime) and G(omegaprime) are the Fourier transforms of f(x) and g(x) respectively.



Although I understand the derivation of this formula, I've got difficulty making sense of two frequency terms omega and omegaprime. I'm fine with omegaprime but I don't know what to make of omega. Should I treat it as a constant, or should I set it to zero?



I'm really interested in the Fourier transform of the square of the second derivative of a function e.g. mathcalF[fprimeprime(x)2]. Because this problem does not involve a shift, I don't know what to make of the shift term omega.

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