Currently I'm studying Fourier series and the first thing I've read is the definition of the series for a function f:[−π,π]→R. In that case the Fourier series is
F[−π,π][f](x)=a02+∞∑n=1ancos(nx)+bnsin(nx)
with coefficients
a0=1π∫π−πf(x)dx,an=1π∫π−πf(x)cos(nx)dx,bn=1π∫π−πf(x)sin(nx)dx.
As I know, the idea behind this is that defining fn(x)=cos(nx) and gn(x)=sin(nx) the set of functions {1,fn,gn:n∈N}⊂L2[−π,π] is complete and orthogonal with respect to the inner product
⟨f,g⟩=∫π−πf(x)g(x)dx.
Now, the text I'm reading also delas with extending this to one interval [−L,L]. The text just states that the Fourier series of a function f:[−L,L]→R would be
F[−L,L][f](x)=a02+∞∑n=1ancos(nπxL)+bnsin(nπxL)
with the new coefficients
a0=1L∫L−Lf(x)dx,an=1L∫L−Lf(x)cos(nπxL)dx,bn=1L∫L−Lf(x)sin(nπxL)dx.
I didn't understand however, how to get to this. There are also some exercises which asks to compute the series of a function f:[0,2π]→R for example.
In that case, given a general interval [a,b] and f:[a,b]→R, what is the Fourier series of f, and how does it relate to the usual Fourier series defined on [−π,π]?
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