Fourier Series (FS) and Relation to DFT

In continuous time, a periodic signal $x(t)$ , with period $P$ seconds,^B.2 may be expanded into a Fourier series with coefficients given by

$$X(\omega_k) \isdef \frac{1}{P}\int_0^P x(t) e^{-j\omega_k t} dt, \quad k=0,\pm1,\pm2,\dots \protect$$ (B.5)

where $\omega_k \isdef 2\pi k/P$ is the $k$ th harmonic frequency (rad/sec). The generally complex value $X(\omega_k)$ is called the $k$ th Fourier series coefficient. The normalization by $1/P$ is optional, but often included to make the Fourier series coefficients independent of the fundamental frequency $1/P$ , and thereby depend only on the shape of one period of the time waveform.