An introduction to finite tight frames (Q1697406)

This book gives a well-written and accessible introduction to the rapidly developing area of finite tight frames. It can be thought of as an extension of the first chapter of Ole \textit{O. Christensen}'s seminal book [An introduction to frames and Riesz bases. 2nd edition. Basel: Birkhäuser/Springer (2016; Zbl 1348.42033)], which deals mostly with the infinite dimensional case. The focus of the book is on finite tight frames -- the most intuitive generalisation of orthonormal bases -- and, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first monograph entirely devoted to the subject, which has experienced a rapid development in the last fifteen years, particularly because the applications to areas as diverse as signal processing, quantum information theory, multivariate orthogonal polynomials and splines, and compressed sensing. The book is structured into chapters, with the first paragraph intended to give a feeling for its content. The latter contains a background history and a section that describes the desirable properties that should be in a finite (tight) frame. Its logical development results as independent as possible. As the author writes in the preface: ``one could jump to those giving the important examples of harmonic frames, equiangular frames and SICs, referring back to the motivating chapters on symmetries and group frames as desired''. The chapters conclude with exercises which contain more details and example. Moreover, from the preface: ``This book can be used for an introductory (graduate or undergraduate) course in finite tight frames: Chapters 1, 2, 5--8 and 11 together with some examples of interest, e.g., group frames (Chapter 10), equiangular tight frames (Chapter 12) and SICs (Chapter 14)''. Chapter 14 also deals with Zauner's conjecture and Lucas Fibonacci SICs, citing very recent results. Among other chapters, I cite the following. Chapter 15 presents a natural G-invariant tight frame for the 3-dimensional space of quadratic Legendre polynomials and the Jacobi polynomials on the simplex. Chapter 16 shows the continuous tight frame for finite dimensional spaces. In conclusion, this book is more than a textbook since it presents many advanced results that give an overview of the current state of the art, which will be useful for researchers who study finite tight frames.