Digital Signal Processing

List of Symbols
Coursera - February 2013
x[n] (or x) discrete-time signal (sequence)
x[n] nite-support signal (vector form)
x[n] periodic signal
[n] discrete-time impulse

N
space of length-N signals

N
space of N-periodic signals
[a, b] closed interval on the real line

2
() space of square-summable signals
L
2
([a, b]) space of square-integrable functions over an interval [a, b]
x, y inner product
x
2

2
-norm
W
N
N-th root of unity (W
N
=e
j 2/N
)
Re{z }, Im{z } real and imaginary part
|z |, z magnitude and phase (e.g. W
N
= 2/N)
z

complex conjugate
X[k] discrete Fourier transform (DFT)

X[k] discrete Fourier series (DFS)

X(e
j
) discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT)
X(z ) z -transform
x(t ) continuous-time signal
X(j ) continuous-time Fourier transform
(t ) Dirac delta

() 2-periodic Dirac delta

convolution operator
E[] statistical expectation
T
s
sampling period
F
s
sampling frequency (hertz)

s
sampling frequency (rad/sec)

N
Nyquist frequency (rad/sec)
L
(N)
n
(t ) n-th Lagrange polynomial of order-N
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