Eigenfunctions of the Cosine and Sine Transforms
Abstract
A description of eigensubspaces of the cosine and sine operators is presented. The spectrum of each of these two operator consists of two eigenvalues (1,\,-1) and their eigensubspaces are infinite--dimensional. There are many possible bases for these subspaces, but most popular are bases constructed from the Hermite functions. We present other "bases" which are not discrete orthogonal sequences of vectors, but continuous orthogonal chains of vectors. Our work can be considered a continuation and further development of results in Self-reciprocal functions by Hardy and Titchmarsh: Quarterly Journ. of Math. (Oxford Ser.) 1 (1930).
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