Editing Discrete Fourier transform (section)

=== Uniqueness of the Discrete Fourier Transform ===

As seen above, the discrete Fourier transform has the fundamental property of carrying convolution into componentwise product. A natural question is whether it is the only one with this ability. It has been shown <ref>{{cite book |last1=Amiot |first1=Emmanuel |title=Music through Fourier Space |series=Computational Music Science |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |location=Zürich |isbn=978-3-319-45581-5 |page=8 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-45581-5 |s2cid=6224021 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-45581-5 |ref=Theorem 1.11}}</ref><ref name=Baraquin/> that any linear transform that turns convolution into pointwise product is the DFT up to a permutation of coefficients. Since the number of permutations of n elements equals n!, there exists exactly n! linear and invertible maps with the same fundamental property as the DFT with respect to convolution.