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Riesz–Fischer: the Fourier coefficient map is onto the space of square-summable families

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)). The Fourier coefficient map

Φ:L2(T;C)→ℓ2(Z,C),Φ(f):=(f^(k))k∈Z,

is a surjective linear isometry preserving inner products: ∥Φ(f)∥2=∥f∥2 and ⟨Φ(f),Φ(g)⟩ℓ2=⟨f,g⟩ for all f,g.

Consequently every square-summable family a∈ℓ2(Z,C) is the sequence of Fourier coefficients of a unique class f∈L2(T;C), namely the L2 limit of the partial sums ∑∣k∣≤Nakek. This is a surjectivity statement about the coefficient map, not the completeness theorem for Lp.

Facts & Assumptions

[A1]

The characters are an orthonormal basis of the complex Hilbert space L2(T;C) (The trigonometric system is complete in L2 of the torus, L2 with the integral pairing is a Hilbert space).

[A2]

If (ei)i∈I is an orthonormal basis of a Hilbert space H, then x↦(⟨x,ei⟩)i∈I is a surjective linear isometry H→ℓ2(I,F) preserving inner products, and ℓ2(I,F) is complete (A Hilbert space with a given orthonormal basis is ℓ2 of the index set).

[A3]

f^(k)=⟨f,ek⟩, so Φ is the coefficient map of the character basis (Fourier coefficients and trigonometric polynomials on the torus).

[A4]

The elements of ℓ2(Z,C) are the square-summable families, and the expansion of an element a in the coordinate vectors is its defining family, so surjectivity of the coefficient map means exactly that every a occurs as (f^(k)) for some f (Square-summable families on an arbitrary index set and the space ℓ2(I)).

[A5]

For a complete orthonormal family, the finite-subset net of Fourier partial sums of any vector converges in norm to that vector (Fourier expansion in a Hilbert space).

Proof

technique · direct

Given: Countable Choice and the Fourier coefficient map Φ.

1.1A1A3

By [A1] the characters are an orthonormal basis of L2(T;C), and by [A3] the map Φ is exactly the coefficient map of that basis.

2.1step 1.1A2

The general coefficient-isometry theorem for Hilbert spaces with a given orthonormal basis therefore applies to Φ: it is a linear bijection onto ℓ2(Z,C) satisfying ∥Φ(f)∥2=∥f∥2 and ⟨Φ(f),Φ(g)⟩ℓ2=⟨f,g⟩, and the target space is complete.

3.1step 2.1A4A5

In particular Φ is surjective: for every a∈ℓ2(Z,C) there is exactly one f∈L2(T;C) with f^(k)=ak for all k. For this f, [A5] says that the finite-subset net ∑k∈Ff^(k)ek converges to f. Given a finite F0⊆Z, some N0 has F0⊆{−N0,…,N0}; hence the symmetric finite sets are cofinal, and the symmetric sums ∑∣k∣≤Nakek converge to f.

4.1step 2.1step 3.1∎

Steps 2.1 and 3.1 are the announced surjective isometry and the Riesz–Fischer uniqueness of the class realizing a given square-summable coefficient family.

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