Fourier Transform Of Heaviside Step Function File

This integral does not converge in the usual sense because (e^-i\omega t) does not decay at (t \to \infty). Introduce an exponential decay factor (e^-\epsilon t) with (\epsilon > 0), then let (\epsilon \to 0^+):

[ \lim_\epsilon \to 0^+ \frac1\epsilon + i\omega = \frac1i\omega + \pi \delta(\omega) \quad \text(in the sense of distributions) ] fourier transform of heaviside step function

(At (t=0), the value is often taken as (1/2) for symmetry in Fourier analysis, but it’s a set of measure zero, so it doesn’t affect the transform in the (L^2) sense.) The Fourier transform (using the unitary, angular frequency convention) is: This integral does not converge in the usual