The discrete Hilbert transform (DHT) of a periodic sequence is interpreted as a matrix product

. A new singleequation form of the DHT operation for any number of sample points

is shown and is used to establish the unique properties of the coefficient matrix

.

is shown to be highly symmetric in nature, and the determination of the elements of

is shown to require a minimum of computation; i.e., less than

elements need to be computed for an

matrix. For the

even case, the relatively sparse nature of

is established; i.e., at least half the elements of

are zeros.