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I have a constant digital signal that is 1 for every sample and of length 4. 4 point DFT coefficients are $$[4,0,0,0]^T$$ Obviously. I wonder, if I resample the DTFT such that samples are taken at $$w=[\pi/4, 3\pi/4,5\pi/4,7\pi/4]^T $$ If I take the inverse DFT, can i find the same signal as before? If not, what is the effect of shifting the samples?

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The DTFT of a length $N$ sequence $x[n]$ is given by

$$X(e^{j\omega})=\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}x[n]e^{-jn\omega}\tag{1}$$

Sampling the DTFT at frequencies $\omega_k$ with

$$\omega_k=\frac{\pi}{4}(2k+1),\qquad k=\{0,1,2,3\}\tag{2}$$

and with $N=4$ we obtain from $(1)$ and $(2)$

$$\begin{align}X(e^{j\omega_k})&=\sum_{n=0}^{3}x[n]e^{-jn\omega_k}\\&=\sum_{n=0}^{3}x[n]e^{-jn\pi (2k+1)/4}\\&=\sum_{n=0}^{3}x[n]e^{-jn\frac{\pi}{4} }e^{-j2\pi nk/4}\tag{3}\end{align}$$

Comparing $(3)$ with the formula for a length $N=4$ DFT

$$\tilde{X}[k]=\sum_{n=0}^3\tilde{x}[n]e^{-j2\pi nk/4}\tag{4}$$

we see that an inverse DFT of $(3)$ results in a sequence

$$\tilde{x}[n]=x[n]e^{-jn\frac{\pi}{4} }\tag{5}$$

I.e., shifting the spectrum corresponds to a modulation of the original sequence.

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  • $\begingroup$ Great answer. I would like to add 1 more question: How do I reconstruct the dtft in $w$ by using these shifted samples? I guess I should use the sinc interpolation, but how do the interpolant functions change with the changing sampling shift? $\endgroup$
    – strahd
    Feb 2, 2020 at 13:13
  • $\begingroup$ @strahd: Is this related to this question of yours? I'm actually not completely sure what you're asking and what exactly you're trying to do. Maybe you can edit that other question to clarify what exactly it is that you're trying to do. $\endgroup$
    – Matt L.
    Feb 2, 2020 at 18:04
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First the FFT of $$x[n]=[1, 1, 1, 1]$$ and its inverse for $N=2^3$

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where red dot indicates sample location.

Now shift samples as given by you,

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I may be totally wrong but keen to learn my mistakes. Nevertheless, the $\left|x[n]\right|$

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  • $\begingroup$ I am sorry but this teems wrong :/ $\endgroup$
    – strahd
    Jan 31, 2020 at 20:56
  • $\begingroup$ I am working on it. Please give me bit more time... $\endgroup$
    – jomegaA
    Jan 31, 2020 at 21:24
  • $\begingroup$ Ah ok I am sorry did not mean to bother you $\endgroup$
    – strahd
    Jan 31, 2020 at 21:26

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