4.6 A first-order autoregressive model is generated from the white noise series wt using the generating equations
xt = ϕxt-1 + wt ,
where ϕ, for |ϕ| < 1, is a parameter and the wt are independent random variables with mean zero and variance σw^2.
(a) Show that the power spectrum of xt is given by
fx(ω) = σw^2 / (1 + ϕ^2 - 2ϕ cos(2πω)).
(b) Verify the autocovariance function of this process is
γx(h) = (σw^2 ϕ^|h|) / (1 - ϕ^2),
h = 0, ±1, ±2, . . . , by showing that the inverse transform of γx(h) is the spectrum derived in part (a).