Time-domain characterization of multiwindow Gabor systems on discrete periodic sets (Q2393569)

The discrete multiwindow Gabor systems the authors study are sets of functions defined on the integers \(\mathbb Z\) by \(\mathcal G(g,L,N,M)=\{E_{\frac mM} T_{nN}g_\ell\}\) where \((E_\tau f)(\cdot)=e^{2\pi \i \tau \cdot}f(\cdot)\), \((T_\tau f)(\cdot)=f(\cdot-\tau)\), \(g_\ell \in \ell^2(\mathbb Z)\) for \(\ell \in \mathbb N_L=\{0,1,\ldots,L-1\}\), \(m\in \mathbb N_M\), and \(n\in \mathbb Z\). In particular they study the case where \(\ell^2(\mathbb Z)\) is replaced by the closed subspace \(\ell^2(\mathbb S)\) consisting of functions that are \(0\) outside the \(N\mathbb Z\)-periodic set \(\mathbb S\) and they give some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for such a system to be a frame. A number of further questions related to Gabor duals, different sampling rates, and nonexponential kernels are studied as well.