Polyphase sequence

In mathematics, a polyphase sequence is a sequence whose terms are complex roots of unity:

$a_{n}=e^{i{\frac {2\pi }{q}}x_{n}}\,$

where x_n is an integer.

Polyphase sequences is an important class of sequences and play important roles in synchronizing sequence design.

References

• Pingzhi Fan and Michael Darnell, Sequence Design for Communications Applications, 1996