Abstract
The main aim of this article is to derive certain continuity and boundedness properties of the coupled fractional Fourier transform on Schwartz-like spaces. We extend the domain of the coupled fractional Fourier transform to the space of tempered distributions and then study the mapping properties of pseudo-differential operators associated with the coupled fractional Fourier transform on a Schwartz-like space. We conclude the article by applying some of the results to obtain an analytical solution of a generalized heat equation.
Keywords:
Fourier transform; fractional Fourier transform; coupled fractional Fourier transform; Schwartz space; pseudo-differential operator MSC:
33C10; 42B10; 42A38; 35S05; 46F12; 47G30
1. Introduction
In 1980, Namias [] formulated the fractional Fourier transform as a path to find out the solutions of certain differential equations which occasionally appear in quantum mechanics. Later on, his results were polished by McBride and Kerr [], who developed an operational calculus for the fractional Fourier transform.
Due to numerous applications in the area of image processing, signal analysis and optics, fractional Fourier transform has received more attention in the last several years. This transform plays an important role for solving various problems in quantum physics [,], signal processing and optics [,,,,,]. The fractional Fourier transform, which is a generalization of usual Fourier transform, has been studied in several areas of mathematical analysis, for instances wavelets [,], pseudo-differential operators [] and generalized functions [,,].
The well-known Fourier transform, denoted by of a function f, is defined as
so that its inverse is given by
provided the integrals exist.
We recall the one-dimensional fractional Fourier transform [,,,] of a function with angle ,
where is given by
Exploiting the tensor product of n copies of the one-dimensional fractional Fourier transform each of order [], the fractional Fourier transform has been extended to higher-dimensional transform.
We assume that where defined in (4).
For , two-dimensional fractional Fourier transform is defined as
The corresponding inversion formula of (5) is given by
It is easy to observe that for , the two-dimensional fractional Fourier transform becomes a classical two-dimensional Fourier transform.
Bhosale [] discussed the fractional Fourier transform on compact support distribution. Pathak [,] and Prasad [,] studied the important properties of fractional Fourier transform and pseudo-differential operator on certain function spaces like Schwartz and Sobolev spaces.
Proposition 1.
Let be the kernel of the two-dimensional fractional Fourier transform. Then, for all , we have
- (i)
- (ii)
- (iii)
for all , where and .
Proof.
Therefore,
The result can be generalized easily for any natural number.
This completes the proof. □
(i) For the case , we see that
and
Thus
The result can be generalized easily for any natural number.
- (ii) Integrating by parts, we have
- (iii) Using (5) and Proposition 1(i),(ii), we have
In recent articles [,,], Zayed developed a new two-dimensional (coupled) fractional Fourier transform that is not a tensor product of two copies of one-dimensional transform but is a transform which depends on two angles that are coupled so that the transform parameters are and .
Choose in such a way that . The coupled fractional Fourier transform of a function is defined by [,]
where .
- The corresponding inversion formula of (7) is given by
Our main objective of this present article is to investigate the continuity and boundedness properties of the coupled fractional Fourier transform and pseudo-differential operator related to it on Schwartz spaces.
2. Coupled Fractional Fourier Transform
In this section, we derive some properties of the kernel of the coupled fractional Fourier transform that will be used later to extend the transform and its associated pseudo-differential operator to certain Schwartz-like spaces. Let us first recall the definition of the Schwartz space for two variables.
Definition 1.
The space is the collection of all complex valued infinitely differentiable functions for every choice of which for
The Schwartz space is equipped with the topology generated by the semi-norms . The space becomes a Fréchet space. The dual of is denoted by .
If f is a locally integrable and polynomial growth function on , then f generates a distribution in as follows:
The elements of are known as tempered distributions.
Lemma 1.
A function if it is a member of and it satisfies
for all
Proof.
Next, we assume that satisfies (9) for all We observe that for any
where are constant coefficients. Therefore, for ,
So that
Consequently, □
Definition 2.
The test function space : This space contains of all those complex valued functions , which satisfies
where .
Proposition 2.
Let be the kernel of the coupled fractional Fourier transform and . Then, for all
where are defined as earlier.
Proof.
Which completes the proof. □
Here,
- We have
- Continuing in this way, we have
Remark 1.
Let be the kernel of the coupled fractional Fourier transform and defined as above. Then, for all
where are defined as earlier.
Proposition 3.
Let be the kernel of the coupled fractional Fourier transform and . Then, for all and we have
- (i)
- (ii)
- (iii)
- (iv)
- The operator is a linear and continuous mapping from to .
Proof.
Since
Hence,
(i) First of all, we will prove for
Integrating by parts, we have
Therefore,
Hence, in general, we have
(ii) Exploiting (7), Proposition 2 and Proposition 3(i), we have
(iii) In viewing Proposition 2, we obtain
(iv) The linearity of is obvious.
- Assume that and t be any three positive integers. Then, by Proposition 3(iii), for any sequence of functions , we have
- if in .
- which shows the continuity of . □
3. Coupled Fractional Fourier Transform of Tempered Distributions
The coupled fractional Fourier transform was orignally defined on In this section, we extend the domain of the coupled fractional Fourier transform to the space of tempered distributions using the adjoint method. In order to do that, we need to examine the action of the coupled fractional Fourier transform on the Schwartz space of functions,
Theorem 1.
The coupled fractional Fourier transform defined in (7) is a continuous linear mapping from onto itself.
Proof.
where are constants.
In viewing the notations [] the coupled fractional Fourier transform can be rewritten as
where where denotes the Fourier transform.
- Now, for all , we have for any
So,
where are constants.
Therefore,
Hence,
because . Thus . Also from (7) and (8), we see that for all ,
It follows that is a one–one mapping from onto itself. Clearly, is a linear map. To show that it is continuous, assume that there exists a sequence in , then from (19), in ; therefore, the continuity of the coupled fractional Fourier transform follows. □
Definition 3.
The generalized coupled fractional Fourier transform of is defined by
In a similar way, we can define the inverse of generalized coupled fractional Fourier transform of as follows:
Theorem 2.
The generalized coupled fractional Fourier transform is a continuous linear map of onto itself.
Proof.
It is easy to observe that is linear on .
Remark 2.
The inverse of generalized coupled fractional Fourier transform is a continuous linear mapping from onto itself.
Example 1.
Let denote the Dirac Delta functions. Then,
Proof.
Let Then, we see that
(ii) It is easy to prove (ii). □
4. Pseudo-Differential Operators
Pseudo-differential operators involving Fourier and fractional Fourier transforms have been extensively studied [,,,,,]. The goal of this section is to extend the notion of pseudo-differential operators to the coupled fractional Fourier transform and study their continuity and boundedness on modified Schwartz-type spaces.
Pseudo-differential operator associated with : A linear partial differential operator on is given by
where the coefficients are functions defined on and is as defined above. If we replace in (22) by monomial in , then we obtain the so-called symbol
In order to obtain another representation of the operator , let us take any function ; then, using (5), (6) and Proposition 1(iii), we have
So, we have represented the partial differential operator by means of two-dimensional fractional Fourier transform. If we replace the symbol by a more general symbol which is no longer polynomial in , we obtain operators more general than a partial differential operator. The operators so obtained are called pseudo-differential operators.
Pseudo-differential perator associated with : Following the similar procedure, a linear partial differential operator of order m on is given by
If we replace in (24) by monomial in , then we obtain the so-called symbol
In order to obtain another representation of the operator , let us take any function ; then, by (7), (8) and Proposition 3(ii), we have
where is as (8).
So, we have expressed the partial differential operator by means of the coupled fractional Fourier transform. If we replace the symbol by the more general symbol , that satisfies a certain growth condition, which is no longer polynomial in , so we obtain operators more general than partial differential operators. The operators so obtained are called pseudo-differential operators associated with coupled fractional Fourier transform. We see that this operator is more generalized than the operator defined by means of two-dimensional fractional Fourier transform .
Definition 4.
Let Then, we define symbol class to be the set of all functions such that for any natural numbers there exists a non-negative constant depending on only, such that
for all
Definition 5.
Let g be a symbol satisfying (26). Then, the pseudo-differential operator is defined by
For the sake of the study of continuity of the pseudo-differential operator we need to redefine the Schwartz-type space as follows:
Definition 6.
An infinitely differentiable complex valued function is a member of if for every choice of , it satisfies
where = { and } and
We shall make use of the following Lemma 2 to prove Theorem 3.
Lemma 2.
Let be natural numbers; then, we have
Proof.
Using the Leibnitz formula, we obtain
This completes the proof. □
Lemma 3.
Let g be a symbol belonging to and be the pseudo-differential operator defined in (27). Then, for any we have
where are constants.
Proof.
Using (27), we have
where are constants.
It is easy to see that Then, the above estimate becomes
where are constants.
- This completes the proof. □
Lemma 4.
Let g be a symbol belonging to and be the pseudo-differential operator defined in (27). Then, for we have
Proof.
Exploiting (27) and Lemma 3, we have
Now, using Lemma 2, the above estimate becomes
where is constant.
Since then the above expression can be rewritten as
This completes the proof. □
Theorem 3.
Let g be a symbol belonging to with . Then, the pseudo-differential operator defined in (27) is a continuous linear mapping from into itself.
Proof.
Therefore,
Since and then the above inequality becomes
Now exploiting (26), we have
Since , the last integral is convergent. Hence,
This completes the proof. □
Let . Then, for any four non-negative integers , we need to verify that
To verify the above inequality, note that from (29)
where are constants.
5. Application of the Coupled Fractional Fourier Transform to a Generalized Heat Equation
Example 2.
Using the coupled fractional Fourier transform, we investigate the solution of the generalized heat equation
Taking the coupled fractional Fourier transform from both sides of (31), we have
So that,
Therefore,
Which gives
So, But
So, .
- From (32), we have
6. Conclusions
In this study, we extended the coupled fractional Fourier transform to a Schwartz-like space and exploit the adjoint method of the said transform to a space of tempered distributions. We derived certain fruitful properties of the kernel of the coupled fractional Fourier transform. Pseudo-differential operators involving coupled fractional Fourier transform is introduced. Moreover, it is shown that the pseudo-differential operators associated with coupled fractional Fourier transform create a continuous mapping on a suitably designed Schwartz-like space. This article concluded with an application of the coupled fractional Fourier transform to solve a generalized heat equation.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, K.M. and A.I.Z.; methodology, S.D. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
Our manuscript has no associated data.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no competing interests.
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