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Fejer and Poisson Summability of Fourier Series - Examples
1 · Prerequisites
2 · Summary
The companion page records the clean coefficient computations behind the two positive kernels, a standard square-wave summation example, and two boundary counterexamples: uniform convergence fails without continuity of the target representative, and Abel summability does not reverse to ordinary convergence.
3 · Logical flowchart
4 · Definitions, theorems and proofs
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5 · Examples, counterexamples and false statements
Fejer means of a single character
Example
Let . For every ,
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An integer and an integer .
The Cesaro means are defined by (Cesaro and Abel means of a Fourier series).
Verification
The Fourier coefficients of vanish except at , where the coefficient is . Hence
If , then every term in the Cesaro average from [L1] is , so . If , then exactly of the terms equal , and therefore This is the same as the displayed formula, and for it gives and for .
Poisson integral of a single character
Example
Let and . Then
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An integer and a parameter with .
The Abel means are defined by (Cesaro and Abel means of a Fourier series).
Verification
The Fourier coefficients of vanish except at , where the coefficient is . Substituting into [L1] leaves only one term:
Since step 1.1 holds for every , it is exactly the asserted identity .
Fejer summation of the square wave
Example
Let be the one-periodic square wave defined by
with . Then
and
Moreover for every and every , so these positive means recover the midpoint value without a fixed Gibbs overshoot.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The one-periodic square wave above.
The Cesaro means are defined by averaging Fourier partial sums (Cesaro and Abel means of a Fourier series).
If both one-sided limits exist at a point, the Fejer means converge there to their midpoint (Fejer means converge to midpoint values at jumps).
The Fejer kernels are nonnegative and have integral (The Fejer kernel is a positive approximate identity).
Verification
Direct integration gives for every and Hence
Averaging the partial sums from step 1.1 as in [L1] shows that the odd mode appears with weight when and with weight otherwise. This is exactly the displayed formula for .
The one-sided limits at are and , so [L2] gives Also [L1] and [L3] give and because , positivity and total mass one imply for every . Thus the Fejer means average across the jump and do not exhibit a fixed overshoot.
Fejer means need not converge uniformly for discontinuous data
Statement refuted
For every one-periodic integrable function , the Fejer means converge uniformly to .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The one-periodic step function with .
The Fejer means are averages of the Fourier partial sums (Cesaro and Abel means of a Fourier series).
Counterexample
For each , the function is a trigonometric polynomial for every , so [L1] makes a trigonometric polynomial as well. In particular, every is continuous.
If converged uniformly to , then the uniform limit of the continuous functions would be continuous. But the chosen has a jump at , so it is discontinuous. Therefore uniform convergence to is impossible. This single step function refutes the universal statement.
Abel summability does not imply ordinary convergence
Statement refuted
If a series is Abel summable, then its ordinary partial sums converge.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Grandi's series
For , the geometric-series identity gives
Counterexample
The ordinary partial sums are so they do not converge.
For , [F1] makes the associated Abel sum As , this tends to . Thus the series is Abel summable but not ordinarily convergent, refuting the statement.