Weyl integral

In mathematics, the Weyl integral is an operator defined, as an example of fractional calculus, on functions f on the unit circle having integral 0 and a Fourier series. In other words there is a Fourier series for f of the form

\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} a_n e^{in \theta}

with a0 = 0.

Then the Weyl integral operator of order s is defined on Fourier series by

\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} (in)^s a_n e^{in\theta}

where this is defined. Here s can take any real value, and for integer values k of s the series expansion is the expected k-th derivative, if k > 0, or (k)th indefinite integral normalized by integration from θ = 0.

The condition a0 = 0 here plays the obvious role of excluding the need to consider division by zero. The definition is due to Hermann Weyl (1917).

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