In 2002, Littlejohn and Wellman developed a general left-definite theory for arbitrary self-adjoint operators in a Hilbert space that are bounded below by a positive constant. Zettl and Littlejohn, in 2005, applied this general theory to the classical second-order Fourier operator with periodic boundary boundary conditions. In this paper, we construct sequences of left-definite Hilbert spaces $\{ H_{ n}\}_{ n \in \mathbb{ N}}$ and left-definite self-adjoint operators $\{ A_{ n}\}_{ n \in \mathbb{ N}}$ associated with the Fourier operator with semi-periodic boundary conditions. We obtain explicit formulas for the domain of the square root of the self-adjoint operator $A$ obtained from this boundary value problem as well as explicit representations of the domains $\mathcal{ D}(A^{ n/2})$ for all positive integers $n$. Furthermore, a Fourier expansion theorem is given in each left-definite space $H_{ n}$.
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