Dirac comb

English

Etymology

Named after the English physicist Paul Dirac. The functions, when plotted visually, resemble the teeth of a comb.

Noun

Dirac comb (plural Dirac combs)

  1. (mathematics) A periodic tempered distribution constructed from Dirac delta functions for some given period. It allows both continuous and discrete phenomena to be represented in a single framework.
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