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@TedShifrin: I was mistaken. The post on meta does refer to the main questions page. The meta post now references your math.meta post, so I have cleaned up comments on both posts (none of yours were removed).
@Vrouvrou Just look at the sequence of $x_n=n/2$. For even $n$ it limits to $1$, for odd $n$ it diverges to $\infty$
21:44
@robjohn I saw Davide just added a comment on my closed post. Not sure for whom it is intended, though :)
Boy, @leslie must actually be doing some work today ... or else munchkin kidnapped him to drown with the ducks.
for last few days, leslie hasn't been here, I think.
Wow. I hope they're all OK.
I also hope they're all OK.
Searching shows he was here yesterday.
But he probably came very late (late as per IST).
I have studied group theory but I still feel like I know nothing about group theory at all.
I'm sure I'll get stuck if somebody asks me to find total no. of possible homomorphisms from one group to another.
Or the nightmare question: characterising a group of a given order.
I don't know why this is so.
22:02
@TedShifrin 20 hours ago, by his chat profile.
I hope it is because the lesliecoin took off and he is off to by a villa in the south of France.
@robjohn what's that?
22:18
a place where cars have yellow headlights and people wear stripy t-shirts.
If you view the Fourier series as writing an element of an (infinite dimensional) Hilbert space as a linear combination of $sin$'s and $cos$'s, what is the condition on the functions that are within this space?
periodic?
There must also be some requirement of continuity etc. though right?
square integrable, but to be fair, your question is rather vague
Would it be correct to say that sine and cosine form a basis of the space of square integrable functions then?
22:24
You are asking a vague question and expecting a yes/no?
Ok I'm not sure what makes my question vague, I'm kind of just stabbing at an answer, mb
In the space $L^2[0,2\pi]$ the functions $x \mapsto e^{inx}$ form a basis.
I was just wondering, given the idea that the Fourier series can be thought of as the basis expansion of an element of a vector space given the basis $cos(x)$ and $sin(x)$, what is the requirement of $f(x)$ to be an element of this space since presumably it can't be any old function
i have already answered that.
Do you mean specifically the two functions $\sin, \cos$ only????
Sure, that answers the next question positively then, even if it was badly worded
yeah
22:30
Oh come on.
Never underestimate a physicists ability to cause confusion in maths
Are you asking for a description of the collection of functions $a \cos + b \sin$?
it is a sinusoid of arbitrary phase, of course.
No I was asking for a description of the collection of functions that can be expressed as a Fourier series
we really are going in circles
The question was already answered, ty :)
22:34
remember that equality is in an $L^2$ sense
that is a lot different than pointwise convergence.
@copper.hat not the usual sort of basis!
22:48
Infinite versus finite
23:15
i am not exactly sure what Charlie was asking
23:36
@TedShifrin I saw and replied to it. That fix to the .css page seems to work.
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