Gabor Analysis and Algorithms: Theory and Applications

Hans G. Feichtinger (Curatore)

Thomas Strohmer (Curatore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2012

In his paper Theory of Communication [Gab46], D. Gabor proposed the use of a family of functions obtained from one Gaussian by time-and frequency­ shifts. Each of these is well concentrated in time and frequency; together they are meant to constitute a complete collection of building blocks into which more complicated time-depending functions can be decomposed. The application to communication proposed by Gabor was to send the coeffi­ cients of the decomposition into this family of a signal, rather than the signal itself. This remained a proposal-as far as I know there were no seri­ ous attempts to implement it for communication purposes in practice, and in fact, at the critical time-frequency density proposed originally, there is a mathematical obstruction; as was understood later, the family of shifted and modulated Gaussians spans the space of square integrable functions [BBGK71, Per71] (it even has one function to spare [BGZ75] . . . ) but it does not constitute what we now call a frame, leading to numerical insta­ bilities. The Balian-Low theorem (about which the reader can find more in some of the contributions in this book) and its extensions showed that a similar mishap occurs if the Gaussian is replaced by any other function that is "reasonably" smooth and localized. One is thus led naturally to considering a higher time-frequency density.

• Curatore: Hans G. Feichtinger, Thomas Strohmer
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Collana: Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 496 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9781461273820

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