The Homogeneous Approximation Property for wavelet frames

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Abstract

An irregular wavelet frame has the form W(ψ,Λ)={a-1/2ψ(xa-b)}(a,b)Λ, where ψL2(R) and Λ is an arbitrary sequence of points in the affine group A=R+×R. Such irregular wavelet frames are poorly understood, yet they arise naturally, e.g., from sampling theory or the inevitability of perturbations. This paper proves that irregular wavelet frames satisfy a Homogeneous Approximation Property, which essentially states that the rate of approximation of a wavelet frame expansion of a function f is invariant under time-scale shifts of f, even though Λ is not required to have any structure—it is only required that the wavelet ψ has a modest amount of time-scale concentration. It is shown that the Homogeneous Approximation Property has several implications on the geometry of Λ, and in particular a relationship between the affine Beurling density of the frame and the affine Beurling density of any other Riesz basis of wavelets is derived. This further yields necessary conditions for the existence of wavelet frames, and insight into the fundamental question of why there is no Nyquist density phenomenon for wavelet frames, as there is for Gabor frames that are generated from time-frequency shifts.

MSC

42C40
42C15
46C99

Keywords

Affine systems
Amalgam spaces
Density
Frames
Homogeneous Approximation Property
Riesz bases
Time-scale shifts
Wavelets

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1

Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-0139261.

2

Partially supported by DFG research fellowship KU 1446/5.