Examples
In the setting of periodic functions defined on the unit circle, the Fourier transform of a function is simply the sequence of its Fourier coefficients. To see that differentiation can be realized as multiplier, consider the Fourier series for the derivative of a periodic function ƒ(t). After using integration by parts in the definition of the Fourier coefficient we have that
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So, formally, it follows that the Fourier series for the derivative is simply in multiplied by the Fourier series for ƒ. This is the same as saying that differentiation is a multiplier operator with multiplier in.
An example of a multiplier operator acting on functions on the real line is the Hilbert transform. It can be shown that the Hilbert transform is a multiplier operator whose multiplier is given by the m(ξ) = −i sgn(ξ), where sgn is the signum function.
Finally another important example of a multiplier is the characteristic function of the unit ball in ℝn which arises in the study of "partial sums" for the Fourier transform (see Convergence of Fourier series).
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