...reversible

The reversibility assumption means physically that no shock-wave occurs along the propagation. It also means that the derivatives and are respectively greater than -1 and lower than 1.

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...delay

The expression is nothing more than a symbolic notation since the z-transform of the impulse response of the ideal filter does not actually exist.

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