Spectral Analysis math

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jean-eric
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Re: Spectral Analysis math

Post by jean-eric » Tue May 21, 2013 7:46 am

Do you know the convention for the Fourier Transform parameters (a and b just below) used ?

1/n^((1-a)/2)Underoverscript[[Sum], r=1, n]Subscript[u, r] e^(2[Pi] i b(r-1)(s-1)/n)

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Re: Spectral Analysis math

Post by jean-eric » Thu May 23, 2013 10:42 am

No news to answer to the question pf the FFT convbentions made by Audacity ?

Well I do not manage to match Mathematica 9 to the Audacity results but I guess this is a convention missmatch more than a bug.

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Re: Spectral Analysis math

Post by Robert J. H. » Thu May 23, 2013 11:46 am

Could you explain where this "convention" originates and what is actually meant by it?
We are no mathematicians.

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Re: Spectral Analysis math

Post by jean-eric » Thu May 23, 2013 7:40 pm

Well, at least I know this kind of things
the Fourier Transform is something involving coefficient of
Exp with i^2=-1
but
the argument of the exponentiel may be defined differently and this influence the normalization of the function too.

There is of course a set of definition that garantee the fact that InverseFourier[Fourier] = Identity

but from a set of parameter to another two Fourier Transform might give different numerical results.

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