You need to know: Set of real numbers, even function
(such that
for all
), derivative, k-th derivative
, integration, set
of complex numbers, Fourier transform
of an integrable function
, absolute convergence of infinite series.
Background: Function is called a Schwartz function if there exist all derivatives
for all
and for all
, and, for every k and
, there is a constant
such that
.
The Theorem: On 1st January 2017, Danylo Radchenko and Maryna Viazovska submitted to arxiv a paper in which they proved the existence of a collection of even Schwartz functions with the property that for any even Schwartz function
and any
we have
, where the right-hand side converges absolutely.
Short context: The classical Whittaker-Shannon interpolation formula states that if the Fourier transform of function
is supported in
, then
, where
. The formula has numerous applications, in particular it allows to construct a “nice” continuous function which approximates a given sequence of real numbers. However, it does not work for functions whose Fourier transform has unbounded support. The Theorem provides a similar formula which works for arbitrary Schwartz functions. In particular, it implies that if
is an even Schwartz function such that
for
, then
for all
.
Links: The original paper is available here, journal version is here.